KANSAS UNIVERSITY GUARD ELIJAH JOHNSON LEAVES THE COURT as Baylor fans surround Baylor players at half court after KU’s 81-58
loss to the Bears Saturday in Waco. Even though KU lost, the Jayhawks clinched a share of their ninth-straight Big 12 regular season title.
See a photo gallery from Saturday’s game at KUSports.com.

WACO, TEXAS — The Kansas
University basketball team
clinched a share of its ninth
consecutive Big 12 regularseason title and then watched
Baylor celebrate at its expense
Saturday at the Ferrell Center,
where the Bears defeated KU,
81-58.
Earlier in the day, Kansas

State lost to Oklahoma State,
which ensured Kansas would
at least tie for the title a couple of hours before the game
in Waco tipped off.
Kansas had taken a sevengame winning streak into the
game and took out of the day
the second-worst defeat in Bill
Self’s 10 years on the job at
Kansas.
Pierre Jackson (28 points)
and Cory Jefferson (25 points)

combined to make 22 of
26 shots from the field and
greatly improved the Bears’
chances of making the NCAA
tournament field, chances that
had taken a major hit when
they lost five of their last six
games leading into Saturday’s upset. Ben McLemore
(23 points) and Perry Ellis (12
points) were KU’s best performers during a comeback
that brought the visiting team

within six points with 6:23 left.
Baylor outscored Kansas 20-3
the rest of the way.
KU (26-5 overall, 14-4 in the
Big 12) next meets the winner
of Wednesday’s Texas TechWest Virginia game, at 2 p.m.
Thursday at the Sprint Center
in Kansas City, Mo.

See a complete wrap-up of

Saturday’s game in Sports,
page 1B.

may have just beaten
Max Falkenstien in a
game of handball. I’m
not sure.
I’m mainly just glad he
didn’t bust my glasses.
When I walked into the
room with him and shut the
door behind me, he looked
them over pretty good.
“I’d be worried about
those,” he said.
Great. Not that I didn’t
already have enough on my
mind: Like these gloves.
I’m wearing a pair of thick,
leather work gloves, and
apparently that is not the
height of fashion in the
world of handball.
In my defense, they’re
not my gloves. Lawrence
dentist Ed Manda has
loaned them to me. He plays
handball three days a week,
and always with leather
work gloves instead of the
specially made and more
expensive handball gloves.
Please see HANDBALL, page 5A

Open access to research, a focus at KU, getting national headlines
By Matt Erickson
merickson@ljworld.com

Taxpayers funded it.
Researchers produced it.
So why should scholarly
work at universities sit behind fences built by publishing companies?

For a decade or so, Kansas University leaders
have asked that question
about academic research
published in scholarly
journals. But this year, the
issue has made national
headlines like never before.

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among public universities,
and now a KU figure has
stepped into a top leadership role for a group pushing for change in Washington, D.C.
Lorraine
Haricombe,
KU’s dean of libraries,
in February became the

chairwoman of the steering committee for a group
with representatives from
academic libraries from
around the world that
pushes for better access
to scholarly research. The
group is called the Scholarly Publishing and Aca-

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the White House and
legislation introduced in
Congress have all drawn
attention this year to an issue supporters call “Open
Access.” It’s an area in
which KU has led the way

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demic Resources Commission, or SPARC.
That’s a follow-up to
a meeting in 2011, when
Haricombe and other KU
faculty and librarians sat
around the table in her

KU group to
play Carnegie

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DEATHS
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the families of the deceased.

BETTY VIRGLENE PIPPERT
Graveside
services
for Betty Virglene Allen
Pippert 83, will be at 11:00
am, Tuesday, March 12,
2013 at Sutton Cemetery,
west of Baldwin Junction.
Betty died on March 5,
2013. She was born March
5, 1930 in Bixby, OK,
daughter of Erchell and
Grace (Jerri) Allen
Betty married Albert
Pippert Jr. on August 27,
1949 in Ottawa, KS. They
celebrated their 63rd
anniversary in 2012.
Survivors include two
sisters, Juanita Loss of
Muskegon, MI; & Delores
Allen of Lawrence, KS;
three
sister-in-laws,
Lillian Allen, Topeka, KS;
Grace Allen, Lawrence,
KS; and Pat Allen of
Mabank, TX; three sons,
Allan Pippert (Cindy),
Bill
Pippert
(Terri)
and Daren Pippert all
of Lawrence, KS; one
daughter, Denise Willits
(Richard) of Netawaka,
KS; 8 grandchildren and 4
great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in
death by her parents,

husband, Albert Pippert
JR., brothers, Richmond
Allen, Orval Allen, Robert
Allen, Don Allen and a
grandson Joel Pippert.
In her early years
Betty was a waitress and
worked at a laundry in
Lawrence, KS.. She loved
animals and gardening.
After
marriage
she
was a homemaker. She
loved
spending
time
with her children and
grandchildren, she also
enjoyed family gatherings.
The family suggests
memorials
in
Bettyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
name to the American
Heart Association or a
charity of the donorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
choice and may be sent
in care of Rumsey-Yost
Funeral
Home,
601
Indiana, Lawrence, KS
66044
Online
condolences
may be sent to rumseyyost.com
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sign
this
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ANGELA N. HERRING
Angela N. Herring, 58,
of Lawrence, formerly of
Topeka, passed away on
Thursday, March 7, 2013
at a Lawrence Hospital.
She was born January
4, 1955 in Highland, KS,
the daughter of James
M. and Anna Marie
Zimmerman Herring. She
graduated from Highland
Park High School in
1973 and earned a BA
degree from Washburn
in 1977. Angela was an
Actuarial Assistant for
National Reserve Life for
8 years and for Actuarial
Resources
Corporation
for 25 years. She was a
member of Highland Park
Christian Church which
later became Highland
Heights
Christian
Church.
Survivors
include her beloved life
partner,
Francene
K.
Beall of Lawrence, three
children, Tammy Masters,
Matthew J. Hewitt both of
Carbondale and Michael
J. and Crystal Hewitt of

Topeka, her two brothers,
James
M.
Herring
and Jere M. Herring,
both of Topeka, eight
grandchildren and several
nieces
and
nephews.
Services will be held at
10:00 a.m. Tuesday at
Penwell-Gabel Southeast
Chapel. Entombment will
follow in Mount Hope
Mausoleum.
Angela
will lie in state and the
family will receive friends
from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Monday at the funeral
home. In lieu of flowers,
memorial contributions
may be given to the
Lawrence
Memorial
Hospital Oncology and
Hematology
Center,
346 Main St., Ste. 100,
Lawrence, KS
66044.
To leave the family a
special message online,
please
visit
www.
Pe nwe l l G a b e l To p e k a .
com.
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sign
this
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JOYCE LUCILLE LATHROM
Funeral services for
Joyce Lucille Lathrom,
81, Lawrence will be held
at 1:00 p.m., Wednesday,
March 13, 2013 at WarrenMcElwain Mortuary in
Lawrence.
Burial will
follow at Memorial Park
Cemetery in Lawrence.
She died Tuesday, March
5, 2013.
She was born on
October 7, 1931 in Kimball,
South
Dakota
the
daughter of Claude F. and
Grace B. (Wilson) Fuson.
She worked at Hillcrest
Billiards for ten years,
at the VFW for four
years and volunteered
at Lawrence Memorial
Hospital for six years.
She was a life member
of Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Auxiliary
VFW Post 852, Eagle
Lodge Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Auxiliary
#309, Lawrence Memorial
Hospital
Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
Auxiliary, and Lawrence
Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
Bowling

Association.
The family will greet
friends from 3 - 4 p.m.
Tuesday at the mortuary.
Survivors
include
two sons, Robert Spry,
Lawrence,
Bennie
Sooby, and wife, Susan,
Rockford, IL; and four
grandchildren, Jeff and
Lacey Spry, and Derek
and Shauna Sooby.
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SHIRLEY ANN ROBB
Funeral service for Shirley Ann Robb, 77, Lawrence are
pending and will be announced by Warren-McElwain.
She died Mar. 8, 2013 at Baldwin Healthcare and Rehab.

CHARLES A. â&#x20AC;&#x153;CHARLIEâ&#x20AC;? MILLS
Funeral services for
Charles
A.
â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Charlieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;
Mills, 78, Lawrence, will
be at 10 a.m. Tuesday
at Clinton Presbyterian
Church, with Pastor Pat
Yancey officiating. Burial
will follow in Clinton
Cemetery. Charlie died
Thursday, Mar. 7, 2013, at
his home.
He was born Nov. 21,
1934, in Mayview, Mo.,
the son of Charles J. and
Mary E. Everhart Mills.
He attended school in
Higginsville, MO, and
Lawrence. He worked at
Kaw Motors for ten years,
owned
and
operated
Mills Auto Salvage for
over 30 years, and later
owned
and
operated
Mills Auto Center in
North Lawrence.
He
was a member of North
Lawrence
Christian
Church, and attended
Clinton
Presbyterian
Church.
He was a
member
of
Masonic
Lodge
#6,
Lawrence,
and a past member of
two square dance clubs.
Charlie enjoyed cars,
working
on
tractors,
casino trips, and spending
time with his children,
grandkids
and
great
grandkids.
He married Janet I.
Hodges on Apr. 19, 1954,
in Oskaloosa, they would
celebrate 59 years of
marriage next month.
She survives of the home.
Other survivors include
two daughters, Debra
Shafer
and
husband
Harry, and Mary Ann
Wieneman and husband

WHEEL GENIUS

Road work planned
for this week
Lawrence
City construction projects are now mapped at
lawks.us/construction-map.

The city will continue reworking the entire roadway of Iowa
Street from Bob Billings
Parkway south to the Irving Hill Overpass. Major delays are expected
as there will only be one
lane of traffic open in
each direction.
The city recommends
that drivers avoid the
area and use 23rd and
Sixth streets to go east
and west and Kasold
Drive or Kentucky Street
to go north and south.
Construction is projected to last through May
2013.

KDOT crews continue to perform work on
the 23rd Street bridge between Haskell and Barker
avenues, utility work and
removal of the shoo-flys.

S

G

Two lanes of traffic are
available in each direction.

Street concrete will
be reworked this week on
Nicklaus Drive, Palmer
Drive and Hogan Drive,
east of Inverness Drive.
Through traffic will generally be maintained, but
there may be street closures.

Traffic on Kansas
Highway 10/23rd Street
will be reduced to one
lane periodically (east
and west), and the speed
limit in the work zone
will be set at 45 mph, as
geometric improvements
are made to the intersection of 23rd Street and
Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connell Road to accommodate turn lanes and a
new traffic signal.
Intersection work will
be completed by March
29, but the signalization
will not be completed until June.

Minister to speak at Kan. Prayer Breakfast

TOPEKA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; An evangelical minister who emphasizes the Christian roots
of the U.S. will be the featured speaker at the 52nd
annual Kansas Prayer
Breakfast.
The Topeka
Capital-Journal reported
that David
Barton will
speak at the
LEGISLATURE
AM UE ERITZ
gathering,
scheduled
Pam S. Geritz, 62, of Holton, KS., died early Saturday, for March 27 in Topeka.
March 9 at her home in Holton. Full Obituary viewable Barton is the founder of the
Texas-based WallBuilders
at www.barnettfamilyfh@yahoo.com
organization, an evangelical

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Richard, all of Lawrence;
a brother, John Mills and
wife Susan, Wildomar,
Calif.; a sister, Gweneth
Emerick, Ava, Mo.; two
grandsons, Jason and
Christopher Shafer; seven
great
grandchildren,
Charlie, Mckensie, Carter,
Dallas,
and
Brianna
Shafer, Jessica Church;
a step great grandson,
Jaden Rawlings; and many
nieces, nephews, and
cousins.
Friends may call from
3-8 p.m. Sunday, and 9
a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday
at Rumsey-Yost Funeral
Home.
The family
will receive friends at
the church following
the burial.
Memorial
contributions
are
suggested to Clinton
Presbyterian Church, or
North Lawrence Christian
Church, in care of the
funeral home, 601 Indiana
St., Lawrence, KS, 66044.
Online
condolences
may be sent at rumseyyost.com
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sign
this
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LJWorld.com.

Christian group that supports a biblical view of U.S.
history.
Last year, the publisher
Thomas Nelson withdrew
Bartonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Jefferson Lies,â&#x20AC;? citing historical
errors.
The book challenged
the belief that Jefferson
was largely secular and
promoted the separation
of church and state.
At his presentation at
this monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kansas Prayer
Breakfast, Barton plans
to speak on the history of
prayer as practiced by early
U.S. leaders.

L AWRENCE J OURNAL -W ORLD

Kansas
budget
director
offered
to resign
WICHITA (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Kansas
Gov. Sam Brownbackâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
budget director said he
offered his resignation
after supplying Brownback with an incorrect
figure that led the Republican governor to
make erroneous claims
about state spending under his Democratic predecessor.
Budget Director Steve
Anderson said Friday
that he offered his resignation after the $2 billion error on a spreadsheet found its way into
a chart the governor
used to claim credit for
spending cuts that never
happened, The Wichita
Eagle reported.
Brownback declined to
accept the resignation.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;As I told the governor
when I offered my resignation, I not only would
have accepted it, I would
have ran me out of the
state on a rail,â&#x20AC;? Anderson said during a speech
Friday at the Republican
Pachyderm Club in Wichita. â&#x20AC;&#x153;However, I guess it
may be his version of punishment; he says, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re
not getting off that easy.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?
The error showed total
state spending peaking
at $16 billion during the
stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2010 fiscal year,
under Democratic Gov.
Mark Parkinson. The actual spending for fiscal
2010 was about $14 billion.
Relying on the mistaken
figure, Brownback used a
PowerPoint chart to suggest total state spending
had declined significantly since he took office in
January 2011. While total
spending is lower now
than it was two years ago,
itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still 2.6 percent higher
under the current, fiscal
2013 budget than it was
under the fiscal 2010 budget.
Anderson said the erroneous spreadsheet was
produced before he took
office and he never saw
it, but he felt he needed to
take responsibility.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Appropriately, I offered the governor my
resignation and even
more appropriately, I offered every citizen of the
state an apology,â&#x20AC;? Anderson said.
The error was revealed
in a Feb. 17 Wichita Eagle
story that also questioned
the Brownback administrationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s calculation of
school funding spent on
classroom instruction.
After the error came
to light, Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley, D-Topeka, said the
Brownback administration has â&#x20AC;&#x153;been fast and
loose with the numbers
since, well, ever since
their administration started.â&#x20AC;?
Anderson said he has
taken steps to prevent
similar errors and that
heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s established a policy
of personally reviewing
all spreadsheets before
they go to the governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
office.
He also said he originally intended to return to
private accounting soon,
but now plans to remain
as budget director for
â&#x20AC;&#x153;as long as the governor
wishes me to be there.â&#x20AC;?

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The Lawrence school
board will hear a report
Monday that compares
the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s financial picture with that of other districts of varying sizes and
demographic makeups.
The Finance Advisory
Board was established in
January 2012 to provide
feedback on finance and
budget issues. The sevenmember group is chaired
by former school board
member Cindy Yulich.
Also during Mondayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
meeting, the board will
decide whether to charge
the advisory panel with
oversight of how bond
proceeds are spent and
make recommendations
for the use of any underspent budgets and interest
earnings.
The report to be presented Monday compares
the Lawrence district with
21 other districts in Kansas on factors such as total
spending per pupil, total
taxes and debt-per-student ratios. A Power Point
presentation of the report
is available online on the
districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website.
The report shows the
Lawrence district on the
lower end of the scale for
its debt-per-student ra-

Spring
means
severe
weather

A wee bit oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; green on a gray day

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

tio and about average for
its total property tax mill
levy.
The report is expected
to become part of public
discussions about the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proposed $92.5 million bond issue that voters
will decide in the April 2
election.
District officials are
calling it a â&#x20AC;&#x153;no-tax-increaseâ&#x20AC;? bond proposal
because, if approved, they
say those bonds would
be issued in three phases,
timed so that they will not
result in an increase in the
districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s property tax levy
for debt payments.
In other business, the
board will:

Consider renewing a
licensing agreement with
Follett Software for maintenance and support of
library automation software.

Give recognition
to award winners in the
Great Plains Regional
National Engineers Week
Future City Competition
and the top winners of the
districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Science and Engineering Fair.
The school board meets
at 7 p.m. Monday at the
district office, 110 McDon- AT TOP, RUNNERS TAKE OFF from Ballard Center in
North Lawrence on Saturday morning for the 24th
ald Drive.
annual Shamrock Shuffle. The 5K run and a poker
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Peter Hancock can be reached at run for motorcyclists on Saturday were among
832-7259. fundraising events for the Lawrence St. Patrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
Day Parade Committee, which this year has chosen
as beneficiaries the Lawrence Arts Center, Ballard
Community Services and the County Fair Swim
Club. ABOVE, Gabriel Hunter, 7, a Quail Run School
second-grader, wore a small hat and some big glasses for the Shamrock Shuffle, while AT RIGHT, runners
sported socks that made a St. Patrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s connection.

National Severe Weather Preparedness Week
ended Saturday but Douglas County Emergency
Management wants the
community to continue to
be prepared in case of severe weather.
Jillian Rodrigue, assistant director of Douglas
County Emergency Management, said a big theme
this year is to be proactive
and make sure communities nationwide are ready
in the event of a weather
emergency.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;March is sort of the
transition into spring and
the week is an opportunity for all forces to take
a whole week to remind
(the community) that now
is the time to be ready,â&#x20AC;?
Rodrigue said.
Preparedness
week
events in Douglas County
included a statewide tornado siren testing Tuesday and ended Saturday
at the Kansas Union with
the 13th annual Severe
Weather
Symposium,
hosted by Douglas County
Emergency Management.
The symposium included storm-expert speakers,
a panel discussion and
vendors promoting tools
and awareness. The audience of more than 140
Please see WEATHER, page 4A

What happened to
all of those senior
football players on
KUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team last season? I heard a little about
Bradley McDougald and
Tanner Hawkinson but
didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hear a thing about
the others.

A:

Nothing has happened yet. McDougald
and
Hawkinson were invited
to participate in the NFL
combine in Indianapolis, which featured more
than 300 draft hopefuls.
The rest of the group have
been working out on their
own or with trainers in
preparation for the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
annual Pro Timing Day,
March 15 in Lawrence, and
the NFL Draft, April 25-27
in New York. Most analysts expect McDougald
and Hawkinson to have a
shot at getting drafted, but
those players who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
get selected are still eligible to join teams through
free agency.

?

ON THE

STREET
By Adam Strunk

Read more responses and add
your thoughts at LJWorld.com

How do you feel about
the KU and K-State
menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball
teams sharing the
Big 12 regular season
title?
Asked at Hy-Vee, 3504
Clinton Parkway

Mary Frances Ellis,
works at Jayhawk
Tennis Center,
Lawrence
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not pleased, not
pleased at all. It must
have been their (Baylorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s)
Senior Night.â&#x20AC;?

-"83&/$&t45"5&

.

Weather
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3A

people from Kansas and
Missouri was a mix of
first responders, spotters,
amateur radio operators,
Douglas County Emergency Management volunteers, storm chasers and
people who just wanted to
learn more about severe
weather.
Rodrigue said that when
the symposium first started, it was meant to be an
advanced training course,
but as it continued to get
larger it became a way to
train and educate beyond
a basic class so spotters
have the information they
need to continue to provide the community with
â&#x20AC;&#x153;ground truth.â&#x20AC;? A spotter
is a person who watches
whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going on with the
weather and calls it in to
Douglas County Emergency Management or the
National Weather Service.
Attending the symposium
was a way for spotters to
learn and to better understand weather.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We try to educate
those residents so we can

WEATHER 101
The Douglas County
Emergency Management
rescheduled its Weather 101
class because of inclement
weather. The class is meant
to educate the community
on severe weather. It will
now be 7 p.m. March 18 at
South Middle School, 2734
Louisiana St. It is free and
open to the public.
get the most accurate report,â&#x20AC;? Rodrigue said.
The more accurate the
report, the better prepared people can be when
the severe weather hits
their area.
Rodrigue urged people in the area to have a
plan ready now, make an
emergency kit and stay
informed of the weather
rather than waiting until
after a warning or watch
has been issued.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Severe weather happens and we need to be
prepared for when it happens, not if it happens,â&#x20AC;?
Rodrigue said.
For more tips and information on how to prepare
for severe weather, visit
www.ready.gov.

Women want students to run â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;marathonsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;
SALINA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Two Salina
women have been working
to get schoolchildren involved in running and would
like to see more of them
complete full marathons,
even it takes several weeks.
Dana Kossow and Louise
Comfort have been so successful with their School
Marathon program in Salina
over the last nine years that
theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re hoping to get elementary school students across
the country to participate,
The Salina Journal reported.
In the program, children
begin running an average of
one mile a day during a sixweek period, and by the end
of the six weeks each child
will have run 26.2 miles.
The School Marathon
program was created by Kossow in 2004 at Meadowlark
Ridge Elementary School

in Salina, where her three
children attended. Kossow,
a runner, was inspired to
create the program during a
trip to the Boston Marathon,
where she saw a group of
children from a local running
club complete a one-mile
segment as part of their own
marathon.
She came back and developed a program at Meadowlark Ridge that all students
could accomplish. When the
marathon program began
during the fall of 2004, the
result astonished Kossow.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had kids running
along with parents, grandparents, relatives and
siblings,â&#x20AC;? she said.
Elementary schools in
Salina and Lindsborg so far
have combined for a total
of 29 school marathons in
nine years.

By Nikki Wentling
Special to the Journal-World

For the past year, Terri
Friedline, an associate
professor in social welfare
at Kansas University, has
conducted research about
college savings for lowincome families, and how
this changes the expectations that kids have for
themselves and for their
futures.
Last week, Friedline
explained her research
and that of the Assets and
Education Initiative at the
School of Social Welfare
to the Kansas House General Government Budget
Committee, which was
considering a bill that
would abolish the Kansas
Investment in Developing
Scholars (K.I.D.S.) program.
K.I.D.S. is a matchinggrant program established
in 2006 that encourages
qualifying families to save
for college by matching
funds
dollar-for-dollar,
up to $600 per year. The
money may be used for
tuition, books, rent or any
other approved expense.
There is a maximum of
1,200 accounts allotted,
and there are 988 in use
this fiscal year.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Encouraging college
savings capitalizes on the
aspirations of low-income
children and changes
their assessment of their
futures,â&#x20AC;? Friedline said.
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to college, you give them
a savings account. If you
want them to save in the
account, then you provide
a match.â&#x20AC;?
But Scott Gates, who
administers the program,
said that while the state
treasurer thinks K.I.D.S.
is an important incentive
for people who use it, it
is hard to ask taxpayers to
fund it. According to the
fiscal note that accompanies the bill, abolishing
the program has the potential to save the state up
to $720,000 in fiscal year
2014.
Gates also said the treasurer would prefer for the
program to be eliminated
rather than forcing the
state to decide to fund it
one year and not the next.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have to explain
this to people each year,â&#x20AC;?
Gates said.
During the hearing on
House Bill 2317 on Thursday, Rep. Mark Kahrs,
R-Wichita, said he had
concerns that the program was being â&#x20AC;&#x153;gamedâ&#x20AC;?
by participants, who may
enroll in college and then
drop out to receive the
total refund into their personal accounts.
Gates said he was not
sure if this was happening, because while the
state could pay the tuition
bill directly to the college
for the student, it could
not receive the refund if a
student were to drop out.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is probably an assumption that is consis-

tent with other concerns
about providing assistance
to low-income families,â&#x20AC;?
Friedline said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is
this concern about fraud.
I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t speak to specifics
about how often it occurs,
but I would imagine if you
wanted to game the system, there would be other,
easier ways to go about
it.â&#x20AC;?
Rep. Pete DeGraaf, RMulvane, asked Gates if
program participants go
deeper into debt as a result of starting the savings
process but also having to
take out student loans.
Gates said he did not
have the data to know
how often that situation
occurred.
Another
committee member questioned
whether the families who
qualify for the program
were actually in need of
the funds provided by the
state.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;If this bill doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pass,
it would be for 2013, a family of four could qualify
who earns $47,100,â&#x20AC;? said
Rep. Virgil Peck, R-Tyro.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;In some part of Kansas,
thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not that bad of a living at all.â&#x20AC;?
Along with Friedline,
the United Way of Greater Kansas City, Kansas
Action for Children and
United Community Services of Johnson County
opposed the elimination
of the program.
The committee will
work on the bill this week.

Tyler DuBay,
student,
Lawrence
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not a huge basketball
fan. I guess itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good for
the state. My sister goes to
KSU so I had better watch
myself.â&#x20AC;?

His choice has not gone
unnoticed.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you play
with mittens, Manda?â&#x20AC;?
a locker room passerby
asked him a few moments
earlier.
Maybe he will some day,
because, if the age of the
room is any indication, he
still has plenty of years left
to play the game.
Falkenstien is 88 and
he may well be the dean
of Lawrence handball.
Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s played the game
for about 70 years, and
heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now part of a group
of about a dozen other
guys who routinely meet
three times a week at the
former Lawrence Athletic
Club (now Genesis) to
play handball.
And I just beat him.
Perhaps. This is of some
importance because I
have heard the story of
how Falkenstien â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the
legendary voice of the
Kansas Jayhawks â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
once beat All-American
football player and KU/
NFL icon Gale Sayers in a
handball game.
So, I just beat the guy
who beat Gale Sayers.
Perhaps. (At least that is
how I will forever tell the
story.)

Dying sport
Handball â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in case you
havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ascertained by
now â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is a sport I have
never played before. That
explains why I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
show up with the proper
eye protection and now
appear well-equipped to
stack a cord of firewood.
I soon got a lesson in
the sport. Rick Spano,
who ended up serving
as my partner, told me
handball definitely is a
two-handed game.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;You have to have an
off hand,â&#x20AC;? Spano explained. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That takes a
long time to develop. At
least 50 years, near as I
can tell.â&#x20AC;?
These days, it appears, a
third hand would be useful
in the sport too â&#x20AC;&#x201D; one to

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Group members really thought I had played
before. I kept waiting to
hear some trademark Max
Falkenstien commentary
on my game, but I never
did. Just as well, because
I understand it is a bit
different than what he offered at Allen Fieldhouse
anyway.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;He saves his commentary for when you are his
partner and you miss a
shot,â&#x20AC;? Spano said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most
of it you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t print.â&#x20AC;?
I missed plenty of
shots, but I made a few,
too. Enough to beat
Falkenstien. Perhaps.
You see, one thing I
didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t quite get about the
game was the scoring. I
thought I had it figured
out, but then I returned
my mind to the important
task of not getting hit by
a rapidly moving ball. It
was almost like I needed a
professional color commentator to explain the
scoring system to me, but
Nick Krug/Journal-World Photo where are you going to
find one of those? (Now
FROM LEFT, LAWRENCE RESIDENTS Ed Collister, J.D. Cleavinger, Don Green and Max Falkenstien play a game of handball
that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve read the rules, it
Friday at Genesis Health Club, 2339 Iowa St. Many in the group, which has been playing together for close to 40 years, would
doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem complicatlike to see more gym space in Lawrence for those wishing to play underrepresented sports like handball.
ed. The gloves must have
thrown me off.)
wave it goodbye. Group
Regardless, when the
has one handball court â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
a shovel with those gloves to add a community class
members said the sport â&#x20AC;&#x201D; at the Holcom Recreation
in racquetball, but thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game was over, I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
and not hurt your hand,â&#x20AC;?
in Lawrence, anyway â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is Center â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that is open to
nothing firm on that.
sure who had won. I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
one member observed.)
at risk of fading away.
Who knows, perhaps
want to look like an idiot,
the public, and getting on
It appears most handâ&#x20AC;&#x153;Even our youngest
just this group and a
so I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ask. I assumed
the court can be difficult
ball players arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t inare old,â&#x20AC;? Falkenstien said. during prime leisure times. terested in making the
handful of others will
subsequent conversation
â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are no young
continue to play the
would give me a clue. But
Genesis has two courts
switch to racquetball.
people playing, and it
game and appreciate
it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. Thanks to my
open to members. A handâ&#x20AC;&#x153;You have to trust the
partner, though, I knew the
is a shame
ful more
people you play with, and its simplicity â&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x153;You
game was close. So â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in
because it
these are not trustworthy can hit a bad shot and it
There are no young are availcase I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mentioned it
is the best
still
comes
back
to
you,â&#x20AC;?
able
at
KU,
people,â&#x20AC;?
Spano
explained.
people playing, and it but those
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; I beat Max Falkenstien.
game in the
Manda notes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and then
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not going to give
is a shame because
world.â&#x20AC;?
it eventually will become Perhaps.
courts
them a stick to hit me
Either way, I had a
Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
a memory.
it is the best game in arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t open with.â&#x20AC;?
good
time playing a
saying
I
donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
know.
But
I
do
to
the
genthe world.â&#x20AC;?
game I would have never
something,
know I enjoyed it. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m
eral public. Worth a shot
At this point, changbecause
somewhat ambidextrous, thought to play. And,
Group
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Max Falkenstien
ing the design of the
heck, I learned someFalkenstien
and, not to brag, I have
members
recreation center to add
thing too: If you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
has seen a
quick hands. Actually, I
think a
handball courts is probtry something new in
few games in
would love to brag about
lack of
life, sometimes the game
his time.
it. I can put 50 cents
easy-to-access courts has ably going to be difficult.
Ernie Shaw, leader of the worth of dimes on my
passes you by before you
This group doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
hurt the game.
plan on letting the game
left elbow and catch them even find it.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;How is anybody going cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parks and recreation department, told
Well, that, and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
fade away without a
in my left hand before
to learn to play the game
me handball â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or racborrow gloves from Ed
fight. Manda and others
they hit the ground, but
if there is no place to
quetball, for that matter
Manda.
have been writing letters
there are only so many
play?â&#x20AC;? Falkenstien said.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; had not come up often times you can do that at a
to city officials urging
Who knows if that is
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Each Sunday, Lawhornâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
them to add a couple of
the culprit. It may be that when the department has cocktail party until people
Lawrence focuses on the people,
asked the public about its start refusing to give you
handball courts to the
people discovered you
places or past of Lawrence and
recreation desires.
proposed 181,000-square- could play racquetball
any more dimes.
the surrounding area. If you
Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s some talk
foot recreation center in
But here is a sport
and save your hand the
have a story idea, send it to
northwest Lawrence.
where such a skill might
occasional pain. (No wor- among group members
Chad at clawhorn@ljworld.com.
about getting KU officials actually come in handy.
Currently, the city only
ry for me. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You could hit

office on the fifth floor
of Watson Library and
launched a coalition of
North American institutions with policies urging
researchers to allow open
access to their work.
Academic
libraries
must spend millions for
journal subscriptions so
faculty and students can
stay up to date on the latest research in their fields.
And members of the general public, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve paid
for much of the scholarly
research that goes on in
the United States through
federal grants, canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t access the resulting articles
without paying hefty subscription fees.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;As taxpayers, they
fund it,â&#x20AC;? Haricombe said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;They should have access
to it. They shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have
to pay twice for it.â&#x20AC;?
Of course, more open
access to research is also
in the financial interests
of academic libraries. The
push for open access arose
in the 1990s as publishing companies increased
subscription prices while
library budgets shrank,
Haricombe said.
KU spends about $3.5
million, largely from state
funds, on journal subscriptions each year.

Becoming a leader
Haricombe and Marc
Greenberg, a KU professor who has also pushed
for open access, say that
KU first became a leader
on this issue because of
David Shulenburger, who
was KUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s provost from
1996 to 2006.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve heard several people describe KU as the
epicenter of open access,â&#x20AC;?
Haricombe said.
Shulenburger
helped
create an open-access repository of research by
KU faculty, called KU
ScholarWorks.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;That gave us a foundation to build on, and
then what it took was a
visionary dean of librar-

-"83&/$&t45"5&

.

ies to keep the momentum Aaron Swartz, an Internet
going,â&#x20AC;? said Greenberg, pioneer and activist, coma professor of Slavic lan- mitted suicide in January.
guages and literatures and He was a co-founder of
chairman of the Germanic the social site Reddit and
languages and literatures helped develop the feed
service RSS, but he also
department.
That dean would be was an advocate for open
Haricombe, who came to access â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a â&#x20AC;&#x153;militantâ&#x20AC;? one,
KU from Bowling Green Greenberg said.
At the time of his death,
State University in Ohio
in 2006. She has a Ph.D. he was being prosecuted
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; not common among by the federal government
library deans â&#x20AC;&#x201D; from the for allegedly breaking into
University of Illinois, and MITâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s computer network
she grew up the daughter and downloading millions
of a librarian in South Af- of research articles from
rica before coming to the an online archive.
Academics
posted
United States in 1986.
After
Shulenburgerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s open-access versions of
work paved the way their research on Twitand Haricombe came on ter afterward in tribute
board, KU in 2009 became to Swartz, including John
the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first public Hoopes, an associate professor of anuniversity
to
adopt
As taxpayers, they thropology
at KU.
an
openâ&#x20AC;&#x153;RIP Aaraccess pol- fund it. They should
on Swartz,â&#x20AC;?
icy, joining have access to it.
Hoopes
a
handful They shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have
wrote. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Inof private to pay twice for it.â&#x20AC;?
formation
heavyweights
wants to be
such as Harvard, Stan- â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Lorraine Haricombe, KUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dean free.â&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Aaron
ford and the of libraries
Swartzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
Massachudeath cersetts Institainly catapulted the contute of Technology.
The policy urges fac- versation to the national
ulty to publish their level,â&#x20AC;? Haricombe said.
The Obama administraresearch work for anyone to see through the tion, however, had already
ScholarWorks
system. been working on a possiIn order not to do so â&#x20AC;&#x201D; ble open-access policy for
for instance, if a faculty about two years by that
member has an eye on point, Haricombe said,
a particular prestigious consulting with SPARC
journal that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t allow and other organizations
for open-access publica- on what kind of policy
tion â&#x20AC;&#x201D; faculty must opt might help.
On Feb. 22, the White
out, rather than opting in.
Haricombe said the pol- House made an anicy required a good deal nouncement: Under a
of â&#x20AC;&#x153;foot-soldiering across new directive, any fedcampusâ&#x20AC;? by her and other eral agency that spends
open-access advocates to more than $100 million
talk with faculty about the each year on research
must ensure public acimportance of the issue.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our main goal is to cess to journal articles
get the information into resulting from that recitizensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; hands as soon as search within one year
possible,â&#x20AC;? Haricombe said, of their original publication. It even requires reand for free.
searchers to publish the
â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;RIP Aaron Swartzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;
raw data behind the artiThat goal is closer, and cles, for others to examthe issue is gaining public ine and work with. The
attention after the events National Institutes of
of the past two months.
Health already has a simPerhaps the biggest rea- ilar policy for research it
son for that is a tragedy. funds.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;

L AWRENCE J OURNAL -W ORLD

And earlier in February,
a bill was introduced in
the U.S. House and Senate
that would require open
access to such research
even sooner: within six
months of publication.
Called the Fair Access
to Science and Technology Research Act, it has
the appropriate acronym
â&#x20AC;&#x153;FASTR.â&#x20AC;?
Rep. Kevin Yoder, RKan., was a sponsor of
the House bill, along with
two Democrats. The Senate bill also has bipartisan
support.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Within two weeks,
weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had two major steps
forward,â&#x20AC;? Haricombe said.
Haricombe said that
one problem is â&#x20AC;&#x153;predatoryâ&#x20AC;? publishers that
charge huge sums of
money for subscriptions
and also charge researchers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; for whom publishing journal articles
is crucial for advancing
their careers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as much
as $3,000 apiece to make
their articles openly accessible.
More than 30 KU faculty members, including
Provost Jeff Vitter and
Dean of Liberal Arts and
Sciences Danny Anderson, have signed an online
petition to boycott major
journal publisher Elsevier; the petition alleges
exorbitant
subscription
prices and other practices that discourage free
access to research. Not
only will they refuse to
publish their work in an
Elsevier journal, most of
those faculty say, but they
also wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take part in the
peer-review process at the
heart of scholarly publishing.
KU will spend more
than $1 million on subscriptions to journals by
Elsevier this year, Haricombe said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve taken an intellectual commodity from a
campus, and the vendors
have made it a commercial commodity,â&#x20AC;? Haricombe said.

Too extreme?
The Association of
American Publishers, a
national trade group, has

announced it opposes the
FASTR bill but supports
the White House order,
saying it provides federal
research agencies more
flexibility.
Andi Sporkin, a spokeswoman for the AAP, noted that many open-access
scholarly journals, which
allow for free or cheap
access to articles, do exist. She said itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important
to remember that though
much research is funded
by the federal government, the publishing of
that research requires
other work: vetting, peer
review, distribution.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;All that work is not
funded by the government,â&#x20AC;?
Sporkin
said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all private-sector
industry.â&#x20AC;? She said AAP
views the White House
policy as a good compromise, but the FASTR bill
as too extreme.
In her new chairwoman
position, Haricombe will
help set the agenda for the
SPARC, which has staff
in Washington, D.C., who
lobby for open-access policy. She does so at a time
when, she and Greenberg
say, the issue has rarely
been as visible.
A commentary last
week in the Chronicle of
Higher Education argued
that the Coalition of Open
Access Policy Institutions
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the group that Haricombe and others at KU
helped to found in 2011
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; could be as much of a
â&#x20AC;&#x153;revolutionary,
democratizing forceâ&#x20AC;? in higher
education as the massive
open online courses, or
MOOCs, that have drawn
much attention in the past
year.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;All of a sudden, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve
been catapulted onto the
national stage,â&#x20AC;? Haricombe said.
That may be new, but as
Haricombe and others at
KU know, the workâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been
going on for years.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Kansas University reporter Matt
Erickson can be reached at 832-6388.
Follow him at Twitter.com/LJW_KU, and
come see him at his next KU â&#x20AC;&#x153;office
hoursâ&#x20AC;?: 9 a.m. to noon Wednesday in the
Media Crossroads, fourth floor of the
Kansas Union.

BRIEFLY
Group gets $406K
for Andover children
ANDOVER â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A child
advocacy group has been
awarded a major challenge
grant for building a new
childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home in southcentral Kansas.
The Wichita Eagle reports
that the J.E. and L.E. Mabee
Foundation, a Delawarebased nonprofit, is providing
$406,000 in a challenge
grant to the Sunlight Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Advocacy and Rights
Foundation. The foundation needs to raise about
$480,000 more by January
2014 to secure the grant.
The foundation has been
trying to raise $2.5 million
to build Sunshine Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
Home in Andover for children
from Butler, Elk and Greenwood counties who have
been temporarily removed
from their homes because of
abuse or neglect. Children in
those counties now are taken
to Wichita for placement.
The foundation has
received about $1.8 million
in gifts, pledges and in-kind
donations for the home.

Bill would make cops
get warrant for GPS
TOPEKA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A bill before
a Kansas Senate committee would require police
to obtain a warrant before
attaching a GPS to a suspectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vehicle.
The House already
passed the bill, which complies with a U.S. Supreme
Court ruling.
Kyle Smith, deputy director of the Kansas Bureau
of Investigation, testified
Thursday that Kansas law
needs to be updated because
it currently doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t address
GPS search warrants.
The Wichita Eagle reports an amendment to the
bill would require customers to provide identification
information to retailers
when buying prepaid cellphones or SIM cards. Police
could get that information
from the Kansas Bureau of
Investigation if they find
such devices while investigating a crime.

Sistine Chapel readied
for conclave this week
VATICAN CITY (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
The Vatican sought Saturday to quash speculation
that divisions among cardinals could drag out the
conclave to elect the new
pope, while preparations
for the vote plowed ahead
with firefighters installing
the Sistine Chapel chimney that will tell the world
when a decision has been
reached.
But the specter of an
inconclusive first few
rounds of secret balloting
remained high, with no
clear front-runner heading into Tuesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s papal
election and a long list of
cardinals still angling to
discuss the churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s problems ahead of the vote.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have your
mind absolutely made upâ&#x20AC;?
going into the conclave,
U.S. Cardinal Justin Rigali, who participated in
the 2005 conclave that
elected Benedict XVI, told
The Associated Press this
week. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You have your impressions.â&#x20AC;?
The Vatican spokesman, however, took pains
to stress the â&#x20AC;&#x153;vast,â&#x20AC;? nearunanimous decision by
the 115 cardinal electors
to set Tuesday as the conclave start date and noted
that no conclave over the
past century has dragged
on for more than five days.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a process that
can be carried out in a few
days without much difficulty,â&#x20AC;? spokesman the Rev.
Federico Lombardi said.
While Tuesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s initial voting will likely see

Gregorio Borgia/AP Photo

FIREFIGHTERS ON SATURDAY PLACE A CHIMNEY on the roof
of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, where cardinals will
gather to elect a new pope this week.
a large number of candidates nominated, subsequent rounds will quickly
whittle down the field to
candidates who are likely
to obtain the two-thirds
majority, or 77 votes, necessary for victory, he said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;This process of identifying the candidates who
can receive the consensus
and on whom cardinals
can converge is a process
that can move with notable speed,â&#x20AC;? Lombardi said.
The Vatican was certainly going full-throttle
Saturday with preparations: Inside the frescoed
Sistine Chapel, workmen
staple-gunned the brown
felt carpeting to the false
floor that has been constructed to even out the
stairs and cover the jamming equipment that has
been installed to prevent
cellphone or eavesdropping devices from working.
The interference was

working: cell phones had
no reception in the chapel. Reporters allowed to
visit the chapel used their
phones instead to pose for
photos in front of Michelangeloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Last Judgment,â&#x20AC;?
the huge fresco behind
the altar depicting a muscular Jesus surrounded by
masses ascending to heaven and falling to hell.
Off in the rear lefthand corner sat the stove,
a century-old cast-iron
oven where the voting
ballot papers are burned,
sending up puffs of smoke
to tell the world if a pope
has been elected (white
smoke) or not (black).
Elsewhere in the Apostolic Palace, officials on
Saturday took measures
to definitively end Benedict XVIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pontificate, destroying his fishermanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
ring and the personal seals
and stamps he used for official papers.

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BRIEFLY
Rebels free 21
U.N. captives

Gays hope to win
spousal benefits

BEIRUT (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Rebels in
southern Syria freed 21 U.N.
peacekeepers on Saturday
after holding them hostage
for four days, driving them
to the border with Jordan
after accusations from
Western officials that the
little-known group had tarnished the image of those
fighting to topple President
Bashar Assad.
The abduction and the
tortured negotiations
that ended it highlight
the disorganization of the
rebel movement, which has
hindered its ability to fight
Assad and complicated
vows by the U.S. and others
to provide assistance.
It also has raised concerns about the future of
U.N. operations in the area.
The Filipino peacekeepers
were abducted on Wednesday by one of the rebel
groups operating in southern Syria near the Jordanian
border and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, where
a U.N. force has patrolled
a cease-fire line between
Israel and Syria for nearly
four decades.
Activists associated with
the group, the Yarmouk
Martyrs Brigade, gave different reasons for seizing
the 21 men.

The Supreme Court will
hear oral arguments this
month in a challenge to a
provision of the Defense
of Marriage Act, or DOMA,
that denies legally married
gay and lesbian couples
federal benefits available
to heterosexual married
couples, including tax and
Social Security benefits. A
decision is not expected
until the end of June, but
accountants and tax attorneys anticipating the
18-year-old lawâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s demise
are already encouraging
same-sex couples to seek
prospective tax refunds,
back retirement payments
and other spousal subsidies
they may have been denied.
It is unclear how the
justices might rule, but the
Obama administration and
former President Bill Clinton, who signed the act into
law, have urged the court to
overturn it on grounds that
it violates the civil rights
of gay Americans. DOMA
supporters, including House
Republicans led by Speaker
John Boehner, argue that
Congress, not the court,
should decide as public
opinion for same-sex marriage grows.
Part of the urgency for
couples to act stems from

deadlines established under
the U.S. tax code, which
gives taxpayers three years
to file protective claims
for income and estate tax
refunds.

Venezuela sets
election date
CARACAS, VENEZUELA
(AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Venezuelans will
vote April 14 to choose a
successor to Hugo Chavez,
the elections commission
announced Saturday as increasingly strident political
rhetoric began to roil the
polarized country.
The constitution mandated the election be held
within 30 days of Chavezâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
March 5 death, but the date
picked falls outside that
period. Critics of the socialist government already
complained that officials
violated the constitution by
swearing in Vice President
Nicolas Maduro as acting
leader Friday night.
Chavezâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s boisterous
state funeral Friday often
felt like a political rally for
his anointed successor,
Maduro, who eulogized
him by pledging eternal loyalty and vowing
Chavezâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s movement will
never be defeated. Maduro
is expected to run as the
candidate of Chavezâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
socialist party.

Punishment
options
Beyond the moral concerns many
people have to capital punishment,
Kansas lawmakers and families of
victims also are making a dollars-andcents appeal.

S

entencing someone to death for a
crime is an extremely serious matter. It shouldn’t be easy to either issue that sentence or carry it out.
Many people have moral concerns
about capital punishment, but there also
are concerns about how great a drain those
cases are on the state treasury. Legislation
introduced last week in the Kansas House
raises legitimate questions about whether
it makes sense to maintain capital punishment in Kansas or to replace it with sentences of life without parole.
Kansas is one of 33 states with a capital punishment law. Since the state reinstated the death penalty in 1994, Kansas
has spent millions of dollars prosecuting
death penalty cases and fighting appeals
in those cases. During that time, 13 men
have been sentenced to death in capital
murder cases. Three of those men had
their sentences vacated. The cases of
the other 10 are at some stage of appeal.
None of the sentences has resulted in the
lethal injection provided for in Kansas
law. In fact, no criminal has been executed in Kansas since 1965.
The oldest capital punishment case
still pending is that of Gary Kleypas, who
was convicted in Crawford County and
received a death sentence on March 11,
1998, almost exactly 15 years ago.
The 2013 Legislator Briefing Book prepared by the Kansas Legislative Research
Department estimates that cases in which
the death penalty is sought may cost the
state about 70 percent more than similar
cases that don’t seek that penalty. In addition to the costs to local courts and law enforcement, the Kansas Board of Indigents’
Defense maintains a death penalty defense
unit with four public defenders who specialize in capital punishment issues and a
current annual budget of $1.63 million.
The briefing book cites a 2003 audit of
22 first-degree murder cases that found
that the median cost for cases in which
the death penalty was imposed was
about $1.2 million, compared with about
$700,000 for cases in which it was not.
Some people think that money could
be spent in better ways. A key provision
of the legislation introduced last week is
to take the money the state could save by
eliminating the death penalty and use it
to help the families of homicide victims.
A poignant column published in the
Wichita Eagle last month proposes yet
another use for the money that would be
saved. The column’s author, Neely Goen,
is the daughter of a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper who was killed in 1978. Her
mother was pregnant at the time and
Neely was born after his death.
In the column, Goen disagrees with
those who think the capital punishment
law is a significant deterrent to crime and
notes that five states have repealed their
death penalty laws in the last five years.
She also contends that such laws simply
cause more trauma for families by dragging them through prolonged trials and appeals. That money would be better spent,
she said, providing services for those families and “equipping people like my father
who are on the front lines, or toward other
programs that actually reduce crime.”
Is the capital punishment law a good
use of Kansas tax dollars? The arguments to the contrary by legislators and
the trooper’s daughter deserve serious
consideration.
LAWRENCE

Bullying overreach is ‘inappropriate’
WASHINGTON — Rodney
Francis is insufficiently ambitious. The pastor of the
Washington Tabernacle Baptist Church in St. Louis has
entered the fray over guns,
violence and humanity’s
fallen nature with a plan for
a “buyback” of children’s toy
guns. And toy swords and
other make-believe weapons.
There is, however, a loophole in the pastor’s panacea.
He neglects the problem of
ominously nibbled and menacingly brandished breakfast
pastries.
Joshua Welch — a boy,
wouldn’t you know; no good
can come of these turbulent creatures — who is 7,
was suspended from second
grade in Maryland’s Anne
Arundel County last week
because of his “Pop-Tart pistol.” While eating a rectangular fruit-filled sugary something — nutritionist Michelle
Obama probably disapproves
of it, and don’t let Michael
Bloomberg get started —
Joshua tried biting it into the
shape of a mountain, but decided it looked more like a
gun. So with gender-specific
perversity he did the natural
thing. He said, “Bang, bang.”
But is this really natural?
Or is nature taking a back
seat to nurture, yet again? Is
Joshua’s “bang, bang” a manifestation of some prompting in our defective social
atmosphere, and therefore
something society could and
should stamp out?
While some might enjoy dogpaddling around in
this deep philosophic water, Joshua’s school, taking
its cue from Hamlet, did not

George Will

georgewill@washpost.com

“

By now, Americans
may be numb to such
imbecilities committed
by the government
institutions to which
they entrust their
children for
instruction.”
allow its resolve to be “sicklied o’er with the pale cast
of thought.” More eager to
act than to think, the school
suspended Joshua and sent
a letter to all the pupils’ parents, urging them to discuss
the “incident” — which the
school includes in the category “classroom disruptions”
— with their children “in a
manner you deem most appropriate.”
Ah, yes. The all-purpose
adjective “appropriate.” The
letter said “one of our students used food to make inappropriate gestures” and
although “no physical threats
were made and no one was
harmed” the code of student
conduct stipulates “appropriate consequences.” The
letter, suffused with the therapeutic ethic, suggested that
parents help their children
“share their feelings” about
all this. It also said the school

counselor is available, presumably to cope with PostPastry Trauma Syndrome.
By now, Americans may
be numb to such imbecilities
committed by the government institutions to which
they entrust their children
for instruction. Nothing surprises after that 5-year-old
Pennsylvania girl was labeled a “terroristic threat,”
suspended from school and
ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation because
she talked about shooting
herself and others with her
Hello Kitty gun that shoots
bubbles. But looking on
the bright side, perhaps we
should welcome these multiplying episodes as tutorials
about the nature of the regulatory state that swaddles us
ever more snuggly with its
caring. If so, give thanks for
the four Minnesota state legislators whose bill would ban
“bullying” at school.
They define this as the use
of words, images or actions
that interfere with an individual’s ability “to participate in a safe and supportive
learning environment.” Bullying may include, among
many other things, conduct
that has a “detrimental effect” on a student’s “emotional health.” Or conduct
that “creates or exacerbates a
real or perceived imbalance
of power between students.”
Or violates a student’s “reasonable expectation of privacy.” Or conduct that “does
not rise to the level of harassment” but “relates to” — yes,
relates to — “the actual or
perceived race, ethnicity,
color, creed, religion, nation-

al origin, immigration status,
sex, age, marital status, familial status, socioeconomic
status, physical appearance,
sexual orientation, gender
identity and expression, academic status, disability, or
status with regard to public
assistance, age, or any additional characteristic defined”
in another Minnesota statute.
If this becomes law, it will
further empower the kind
of relentless improvers and
mindless protectors who
panic over Pop-Tart pistols
and discern terrorism in Hello Kitty bubble guns. Such
people in Minnesota will be
deciding what behavior —
speech, usually — damages
a “supportive learning environment.” They will be sniffing out how students’ speech
or other behavior has real
or perceived — by whom?
— effects on the balance of
“power” between other students. And school bureaucracies will ponder whether
what Sally told Eleanor about
Brad’s behavior with Pam after the prom violated Brad’s,
or perhaps Pam’s, “reasonable expectation of privacy.”
Government is failing
spectacularly at its core functions, such as budgeting and
educating. Yet it continues
to multiply its peripheral
and esoteric responsibilities,
tasks that require it to do
things for which it has no aptitude, such as thinking and
making common-sense judgments. Government nowadays is not just embarrassing,
it is — let us not mince words
— inappropriate.
— George Will is a columnist for
Washington Post Writers Group.

OLD HOME TOWN

100

From
the
Lawrence
Daily
Journal-World for
March 10, 1913:
YEARS
“Prof. W. H. CarAGO
ruth, vice chanIN 1913 cellor of the University of Kansas,
has accepted the offer recently
made him by Stanford University and will leave the University
here at the end of the school
year. An effort was made to
keep Prof. Carruth here but the
offer from Stanford was much
better than any that could be
made by K.U.
— Compiled by Sarah St. John

Read more Old Home Town at
LJWorld.com/news/lawrence/
history/old_home_town.

Introverts often are misunderstood
It’s not just a women’s issue.
Granted, that’s how many
of us are framing last month’s
decision by Marissa Mayer,
CEO of Yahoo! Inc., to end
telecommuting and require
all employees to report to the
office. It ignited a firestorm
of controversy over whether
Mayer, a working mother
herself, has backstabbed the
sisterhood. Columnist Kathleen Parker called it the latest iteration of the “mommy
war.”
But there’s another reason
we should be debating Mayer’s policy: some people simply work better alone.
My colleagues are rolling their eyes now, so let
me rush to provide full disclosure. I’ve worked mainly
from home for more than 20
years, going into the office
just enough that they don’t
give my desk away. I don’t do
it because it’s more convenient. I don’t do it because I
hate the commute. I do it because I’m an introvert.
The word is not a synonym
for “shy,” though as a boy, I
was that, too. But where shyness is an outsized fear of
other people’s disapproval
or of social embarrassment,
to be an introvert is to be inward turning, more at home
in small, intimate groups
than large, boisterous ones.
It is to prefer the quiet to the

Leonard Pitts Jr.

“

lpitts@miamiherald.com

And, as Cain points
out, quiet people, left
to their own devices,
have produced rather
significant moments
in culture, science and
politics.”

loud, reflection to exhortation, solitude to socializing.
For years, I struggled with
that, wondered why I prefer
the rainy afternoon spent
watching old movies or
reading a book to the sunny
afternoon at a backyard barbecue watching people do
the electric slide. Then, last
year, I chanced upon a book,
“Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t
Stop Talking” by Susan Cain.
It was the first time anyone
had ever explained me to me.
Turns out I’m not the only
one. Turns out introversion
is perfectly normal.
Except that our culture is

biased toward extroverts.
It’s a bias reflected both in
Mayer’s decision and in the
attagirls she has received
from the likes of New York
Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
He argues, as she did, that
collaboration — “synergy”
is the buzzword — produces
the best results. This is conventional wisdom in American business. Indeed, Cain
notes that per person square
footage in offices has shrunk
by over half since the ‘70s in
the belief that “open space”
floor plans that force people
together facilitate teamwork
and, thus, productivity.
For some of us, it probably does. But not for all. The
savvy CEO will understand
this, will realize that the
alone space is where introverts find the stuff that powers their best work and will
— wherever practical — accommodate that.
And, as Cain points out,
quiet people, left to their own
devices, have produced rather significant moments in
culture, science and politics.
Her list of their contributions
includes: the theory of relativity; “1984,” “Schindler’s
List,” Charlie Brown, Google
and the Montgomery bus
boycott.
All that said, I have a sinking fear that after this column, I’ll never be invited to
another backyard barbecue

again. Good friends, please
invite me; I’ll even bring the
banana pudding. But at the
same time, please forgive me
if I leave early.
As Cain notes, it is not
that the introvert doesn’t
enjoy the company of others. Rather, it’s that after a
certain point, it leaves him
feeling physically drained.
That’s who I am — less Bill
Clinton than Al Gore — and
I’ve given myself permission
to stop fighting it.
Marissa Mayer may or
may not be a traitor to modern mommyhood. But she
has certainly bought into the
one-size-fits-all
mentality
that says productivity and
creativity are found when
colleagues meet at the water
cooler — and only there. She
is wrong and I am proof.
This week, I’ll go into the
office to make sure my desk
is still there. I’ll kibitz with
my friends. But when it’s
time to get down to work I’ll
slip on the noise-cancelling
headphones, block out the
world and seek what people
like me always, instinctively
seek: a quiet and alone inner
space where it is possible to
simply, finally …
Be.
— Leonard Pitts Jr. is a columnist
for the Miami Herald. He chats with
readers from noon to 1 p.m. CDT
each Wednesday on www.MiamiHerald.com.

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FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS

JED SPENCER, left, of Cabot, Ark., and his dad, Calvin Spencer, of Lawrence,
are shown at the end of their 252-mile bicycle ride on the Katy Trail. The
photo was taken by Shirley Spencer, who provided support and gear, and
submitted by Calvin. Email your photos to friends@ljworld.com or mail them
to Friends & Neighbors, P.O. Box 888, Lawrence, KS 66044.

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ROGER HILDEBEITEL INSPECTS Peeps as they move through the manufacturing
process at the Just Born factory in Bethlehem, Pa. As the candy brand celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, a quirky new TV ad campaign talks about
all the things people do with their Peeps.

Hot chicks: At 60, Peeps
more popular than ever
By Michael Rubinkam
Associated Press

BETHLEHEM, PA. — It’s
Easter morning. A boy
rouses his younger brother, and they run to the
living room to find their
baskets filled with — what
else? — Peeps.
“Peeps are THE candy
of Easter,” the excited boy
tells his wide-eyed sibling,
who pops a yellow marshmallow chick in his mouth.
“You can eat ‘em, smash
‘em, microwave ‘em, deep
fry ‘em, roast ‘em on a
stick,” the boy explains.
That’s not all. You can
make “historically accurate Peeps dioramas ...
Peeps pop art ... You can
make a Peeps topiary.”
As the candy brand celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, Peeps’ first
TV ad in a decade captures
an essential truth about the
spongy confection: Love
them or hate them, people
do all sorts of things with
Peeps, only some of which
involve giving them to kids
at Easter.
“Everyone seems to
have a Peeps story,” says
Ross Born, third-generation operator of Just Born
Inc., which hatches 5 million Peeps a day at its plant
60 miles north of Philadelphia. “And they are free
and willing to talk about
how they eat their Peeps,
how they cure them, how
they store them, how they
decorate with them.”

Just Born calls it the
“Peepsonality” of consumers who buy Peeps
not only to eat, but also to
play around with.
“If you had asked me
about this 25 years ago, I
would’ve been rather bewildered about the whole
thing,” Born confesses.
“We were candy makers.”
Not that he’s complaining. Just Born had its best
year financially in 2012.
His grandfather, Russian
immigrant Sam Born, started the candy company out
of a Brooklyn storefront 90
years ago. Born advertised
the freshness of his product
with a sign that said “Just
Born.” The name stuck.
The burgeoning business moved to Bethlehem
and acquired the Peeps
brand with its 1953 purchase of Rodda Candy Co.
of Lancaster. Best known
for its jelly beans, Rodda
had also introduced a small
line of marshmallow chicks
and bunnies, employing
dozens of women who
hand-squeezed them out
of pastry bags. “It was really very difficult, and these
women were strong,” said
David Shaffer, Sam Born’s
nephew and co-CEO along
with Ross Born.
Ross’s father, Bob Born,
a physicist and engineer
by training, automated the
process in the mid-1950s,
and a version of the machine he invented is still
in use today, extruding
millions of those familiar

shapes on peak-Peep production days.
The company has never
suffered an unprofitable
year. But its growth has always been relatively slow,
and a few years ago, Born
and Shaffer decided to accelerate it. They brought in
a new management team,
spent heavily on marketing and broke back into the
chocolate business, introducing chocolate-dipped
Peeps as well as Peepsters,
small cream-filled chocolate candies. They also focused on holiday seasons
other than Easter, particularly Christmas.
The result: Shaffer says
last year was “off the
charts.”
While the company
churns out more than 1 billion Peeps this Easter season — a record — it sees the
60th anniversary as another
marketing opportunity and
a chance to connect with
its fans via social media. In
addition to the TV ads, it’s
promoting a Facebook survey that asks fans if they like
their Peeps fresh, frozen, or
“aged to perfection.”
So which is it, Ross
Born? Fresh or stale?
He’s happy to address
that perennial Peeps debate. Just don’t ask him to
take sides.
“It’s just like politics,”
Born said. “You’ve got
people way on one side,
and way on the other side,
but there are a whole lot
of people in the middle.”

NEW YORK — At barbecue joints, coffee counters
and bottle-service nightclubs, a coming clampdown on big, sugary soft
drinks is beginning to take
shape on menus in a city
that thrives on eating and
going out.
Some restaurants are
ordering smaller glasses,
Dunkin’ Donuts shops are
telling customers they’ll
have to sweeten their own
coffee, and Coca-Cola has
printed posters explaining the new rules — all
in preparation for the nation’s first limit on the size
of sugar-laden beverages,
set to take effect Tuesday.
City officials say it’s a
pioneering, practical step
to staunch an obesity rate
that has risen from 18 to 24
percent in a decade among
adult New Yorkers. Health
officials say sugar-filled
drinks bear much of the
blame because they carry
hundreds of calories — a
32-ounce soda has more
than a typical fast-food
cheeseburger — without
making people feel full.
The city “has the ability
to do this and the obligation to try to help,” Mayor
Michael Bloomberg said
last month.
Critics say the regulation
won’t make a meaningful
difference in diets, and will
hurt certain types of businesses while sparing others. A customer who can’t
get a 20-ounce Coke at a
sandwich shop could still

buy it at a 7-Eleven, for instance, since many convenience stores are beyond
the city’s regulatory reach.
New Yorkers are divided
on the restriction. A Quinnipiac University poll released last week found 51
percent opposed it, while
46 percent approved.
“I don’t know if the
state should be our surrogate parent,” Peter Sarfaty, 71, said. “You get the
information out there, but
to tell people what they
can or can’t do? As if it’s
going to stop them.”
Business organizations,
from the massive American Beverage Association
to a local Korean-American grocers’ group, have
asked a judge to stop the
limit from taking effect
until he decides on their
bid to block it altogether.
He hasn’t ruled on either
request.
Many businesses aren’t
taking chances in the
meantime.
At Brother Jimmy’s BBQ,
for instance, customers still
will be able to order margaritas by the pitcher and heaping plates of ribs. But they’ll
no longer get 24-ounce
tumblers of soda, since the
new rule bars selling nondiet cola in containers bigger
than 16 ounces.
“Everything we do is big,
so serving it in a quaint little
16-ounce soda cups is going
to look kind of odd,” owner
Josh Lebowitz said. Nonetheless, he’s ordered 1,000
of them for the North Carolina-themed restaurant’s five
Manhattan locations, rather

than take on a fight that carries the threat of $200 fines.
Dunkin’ Donuts shops,
meanwhile, have set out
colorful fliers explaining
the complex rules surrounding coffee.
Lots of lattes are exempt
because they’re more than
half milk. And it’s OK for
customers to load their
large and extra-large coffees with all the sugar or
sweet flavoring they want.
But the chain will no longer do it for them, for fear
of running over the limit
of roughly 3 calories per
ounce.
Some
businesses,
though, are adapting to
the new rule with gusto.
At Frames Bowling
Lounge, a Manhattan spot
that mixes bowling with
an upscale bar, the families who pack the lanes on
weekends will no longer
be offered pitchers of soda
as part of a party package,
executive general manager Ayman Kamel said.
Instead, they can get
individual,
eight-ounce
cups of soda — or pitchers of the low-sugar,
house-made juices that he
and staffers spent an afternoon tasting this week.
They experimented with
such options as carrot,
beet and mint-and-citrus.
“It’s going to cost a little
bit more money, but nothing is more valuable than
having freshly squeezed
juice available for our clients,” he said. “We’re taking advantage of the situation to promote the good
side — healthy options.”

FIT TO BE TIED

KANSAS FOOTBALL: Jayhawks hold special clinic. 3B

SPORTS

Michael Cobbins and Oklahoma
State slammed Kansas State,
76-70, but K-State still earned
a share of the Big 12 crown.
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Consolation prize

Mike Yoder/Journal-World Photos

COACHES AND PLAYERS ON THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY BENCH WATCH THE FINAL SECONDS of the Jayhawks’ 81-58 loss to Baylor on Saturday in Waco, Texas. KU lost the game, but still
ended up with a share of the Big 12 regular-season crown.

KU misses out
on outright title
By Gary Bedore
gbedore@ljworld.com

WACO, TEXAS — There was
no dancing, no high-fiving,
no hugging, no hoisting of
the Big 12 championship trophy in Kansas University’s
basketball locker room Saturday night in Ferrell Center.
“It doesn’t feel like we won
it at all, really,” KU senior
center Jeff Withey said after
the Jayhawks’ 81-58 blowout
loss at Baylor.
“We tied with Kansas
State (for league crown). It’s
cool to win nine in a row, but
it just stinks to lose.”
All the celebrating took
place on the court, where the
home team’s students were
invited by BU coach Scott
Drew. He grabbed a micro-

Kansas lacking
fire versus Bears

phone and asked the students to join his Bears (18-13,
9-9) , who might have earned
an NCAA Tournament berth
by beating the No. 4-ranked
Jayhawks (26-5, 14-4).
KU’s players, meanwhile,
were left to wonder what the
heck happened just hours
after Kansas State lost to
Oklahoma State — a loss that
guaranteed KU a share of
its ninth straight conference
crown no matter the outcome of Saturday’s BU game.
“I didn’t watch it, but had
people text me. They said KState (also 14-4) lost to Oklahoma State,” Withey said.
“I don’t think it affected us.
If anything, it should have
given us more energy to KANSAS BIG MAN JEFF WITHEY (5)
TOSSES A PASS to Kevin Young beneath
Please see KANSAS, page 4B the basket.

ISU ousts Kansas
from Big 12 tourney
DALLAS — Bounced out of
the Big 12 tournament after
just one victory, Kansas University’s women’s basketball
team again has to sweat out
another Selection Monday.
Senior forward Chelsea
Poppens led Iowa State with
24 points, and junior forward Hallie Christofferson
added 23 points to lead the
Cyclones to a 77-62 women’s
basketball victory over KU
on Saturday at American
Airlines Center.
And now the Jayhawks, a
Sweet 16 team a year ago but

tkeegan@ljworld.com

lined them up neatly — and
then won the Big 12 tournament, it would have had to
finish the season with a 17game winning streak to win
the national championship.
Really, now, does this or
any other team in this season
of parity that faces powerconference opposition nightly
Please see KEEGAN, page 5B

KU women 2nd at Indoor
J-W Staff Reports

Jayhawk women must await fate
just 18-13 and on the NCAA
Tournament bubble now,
must wait until May 18 to
learn their NCAA fate.
“Of course I think we
should be in,” KU coach
Bonnie Henrickson said. “I
thought the committee made
a great decision last year, and
I thought we made them look
real smart. I think we should
be. We play the best teams in
the best league in America.
“I said going in, I think
what’s hard is people think
because we all beat each
other up — we are a great

Tom Keegan

TRACK AND FIELD

————

J-W Staff and Wire Reports

WACO, TEXAS — The ghost
of Peter (Arness) Graves
popped into my head and
told me Saturday night that
my mission, should I decide
to accept it, is to try to make
Jayhawk Nation feel as if
Saturday’s shellacking at the
hands of a Baylor team that
had lost five of its previous
six games isn’t cause for
concern heading into the Big
12 tournament, an entertaining bridge to the best event
in all of sports.
OK. Here goes:
Had Kansas won Saturday, instead of losing 81-58
at Ferrell Center — where
Baylor coach Scott Drew
went onto the floor, took
the microphone and told the
students to storm the court
after security personnel had

Andrea Geubelle won her
second gold, in
the triple jump

Natalia Bartnovskaya won
Please see KU WOMEN, page 6B the pole vault

FAYETTEVILLE, ARK. — Kansas University had two more
individual national champions, and the KU women’s
track-and-field team repeated as national NCAA Indoor
runner-up Saturday.
Andrea Geubelle became
the fourth athlete to win both
triple- and long-jump titles
when she easily won the triple-jump gold Saturday, and
Natalia Bartnovskaya won
the pole vault.
“It was a tremendous
weekend with some great
performances,” 13-year KU
coach Stanley Redwine
said. “Having three national champions is amazing. The athletes and the
coaches have done a great

job of representing Kansas
well, and it’s great to again
see all their hard work paying off.”
KU scored a school-best
44 points to place second behind national champ Oregon
(56 points).
Geubelle won the longjump title Friday, then Saturday turned in four jumps
over 45 feet in six attempts
at the triple-jump.
She won with a careerbest and school-record mark
of 14.18 meters (46 feet, 61⁄4
inches) on her fourth attempt. The distance was the
fourth-longest in NCAA history and just two inches shy
of tying the American record.
Just three other athletes
have won long- and triple-

jump titles at an NCAA Indoor meet, and none since
2003. She tied Dartmouth’s
Abbey D’Agostino as the
meet’s high-point scorer,
with 20.
Bartnovskaya had the
performance of her career
earlier in the evening in the
pole vault. The Krasnoyarsk,
Russia, native won her first
NCAA Indoor title and KU’s
second in the event.
Bartnovskaya
vaulted
to five-straight clearances
without recording a foul, the
only competitor to do so. She
cleared a career-best and
school-record height of 4.45
meters (14 feet, 71⁄4 inches)
on her second attempt and
won by virtue of fewer fouls.
Please see KU TRACK, page 3B

Hornish claims Nationwide victory
LAS VEGAS (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Sam Hornish Jr. didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know the name of
Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s race until he went
to the driversâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; meeting for the
Samâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Town 300.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pretty good one for
me to win,â&#x20AC;? he thought to himself. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Already got my name on
the trophy.â&#x20AC;?
Hornish survived two restarts
in the final 15 laps and held off
Kyle Busch to win the Nationwide Series race at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Hornish led 114 laps in his
second career Nationwide victory, but needed a strong finish
to outrun Busch, the hometown
driver who won the Nationwide
race last week in Phoenix.
Hornish credited the win to
his dominant car, all the more
impressive since the drivers
got almost no practice on the
1.5-mile tri-oval due to Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
rain.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;You dream about having cars
like this,â&#x20AC;? Hornish said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think

I used more energy celebrating
than I did actually driving the
car today.â&#x20AC;?
Hornish and Busch both went
aggressively after the final restart with seven laps to go, with
Busch briefly nudging ahead
before Hornish reclaimed the
lead with five laps left. Hornish
got clear of Busch and finished
comfortably in a caution-filled
race.
With his third top-10 finish in
three races this season, Hornish

A college basketball season
without form and often without
function generated a 48-hour
refresher course in Chaos
Theory this week. Beginning
Tuesday and carrying into
Thursday, we saw:
O Indiana, which could have
clinched its first outright Big
Ten title since 1993, lose at
home to an Ohio State team it
had thumped on the road.
O Georgetown, which had
won 11 games in succession and
which could have clinched a
share of the Big East title, lose
at Villanova by 10 points.
O Miami, which could have
clinched its first outright
ACC title ever, lose at home
to a Georgia Tech team it had
thumped on the road.
O UCLA, which was tied for
first place in the Pac-12, lose by
12 points to last-place Washington State, which hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t beaten
the Bruins in Pullman since
1993.
O Kentucky, which won it
all last season but has nearly
played its way into the NIT,
lose to a sub-.500 Georgia team
by 10 points.
It was no accident that, at the
start of this careening week,
Gonzaga became the fifth different team to be ranked No.
1 this season. The Bulldogs, as
ever, are a polished and potent
squad, but when a team that
hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t beaten anyone any better
than Saint Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s since New
Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ascends to the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
top spot, it tells us all we need
to know about the state of the
nation.
A week from Selection
Sunday, clarity and consensus
remain in hibernation. The
2012 NCAA Tournament began
with five teams having stamped
themselves as a cut above â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
Kentucky, North Carolina,
Syracuse, Michigan State and
Kansas. Any one of those five
teams had more going for it
than anybody on this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
board. This might well be the
year that a 16th seed unhorses a
No. 1, for the simple reason that
these projected No. 1â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s look like
No. 3â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.
Indiana entered the season
ranked No. 1, but the Hoosiers
donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t guard very well â&#x20AC;&#x201D; where
have you gone, Quinn Buckner?
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t rebound, either.
Michigan doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t defend much,
either. Florida has had issues
closing out games. Kansas
looked great up until the moment when it forgot how to
win. Miami seemed to have
separated itself from the ACC
pack, only to lose three of its
next four games.
It would be a stretch to say
any team in the nation looks
good enough to win six (if
not seven) NCAA Tournament games, but some team
will. Maybe itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be Duke: In
a field where nobody stands
out, coaching might well be
the determinant. Maybe itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be
Michigan State, where the same
applies. Maybe itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be Louisville, which looked awful in
mid-January but hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t lost in
regulation since.
Or maybe itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be a team from
a lesser league. Maybe Gonzaga,
which has lost only twice, or
Butler, which beat Gonzaga, or
VCU, which has distinguished
itself in Year 1 in the Atlantic 10.

Net

Wilfredo Lee/AP Photo

TIGER WOODS HITS FROM THE THIRD TEE during the third round of the Cadillac
Championship on Saturday in Doral, Fla.

Woods fires 67, stretches lead to four at Doral
DORAL, FLA. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Tiger Woods hit a tee shot
that got stuck in a palm tree. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about the
only thing that didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fall his way Saturday in the
Cadillac Championship.
Woods made seven more birdies on the Blue
Monster at Doral, the last one from 15 feet on
the 18th hole that gave him a 5-under 67 and a
four-shot lead over Graeme McDowell heading
into the final round.
Woods has made 24 birdies and taken only 74
putts through three rounds, both personal bests
in his PGA Tour career.
It put him in great position to win his 17th
career World Golf Championship, and his first
since 2009.
He has a 39-2 record when he has the outright
lead going into the final round on the PGA Tour.
The only time he has lost a lead of more than
two shots was in 2010 against an 18-man field
at the Chevron World Challenge, when McDowell beat him in a playoff.
McDowell was six shots out of the lead with
three holes to play when he tried to keep it
close. His drive on the 16th finished just over the
green, and he chipped in for eagle. He picked up
another shot on the 17th when Woodsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; tee shot
embedded high into the trunk of a palm tree.
Once his ball was identified, he took a penalty
drop and made bogey.
Woods made birdie to reach 18-under 198,
and McDowell did well to stay only four shots
behind with a two-putt from 85 feet away. That
gave him a 69, and another date with Woods in
the final group at Doral.
Phil Mickelson, who badly wanted to get
into the final group, overcame a three-putt from
four feet for double bogey on the third hole by
making four birdies the rest of the way. He had
a 69, along with Steve Stricker, and both were
five shots behind.

BOXING

Hopkins oldest to win title
NEW YORK â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Bernard Hopkins became the
oldest boxer to win a major title on Saturday
night, scoring a 12-round unanimous decision
over Tavoris Cloud to claim the IBF light heavyweight championship.
The 48-year-old Hopkins broke the record he
set by beating Jean Pascal for the WBC light
heavyweight title on May 21, 2011.
Hopkins improved to 53-6-2 in the main event
of an eight-fight card at the Barclays Center. It
was his 29th title bout. The 30-year-old Cloud
fell to 19-1.

TORONTO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Robert Earnshaw scored twice,
and Toronto FC snapped a 15-game MLS winless
streak with a 2-1 victory over Sporting Kansas
City on Saturday.
Kansas City finished 40 points ahead of Toronto last season but came out sluggish, just as
it had done the previous week before rallying to
defeat Philadelphia 3-1.
The second half was a different story but
Toronto weathered the storm until the 77th
minute, when Argentine striker Claudio Bieler,
taking to a flick-on header from C.J. Sapong,
fired a right-footed shot past Joe Bendik to cut
the lead to 2-1.

PHOENIX â&#x20AC;&#x201D; David Wright hit a two-out grand
slam in the fifth inning, and the United States
beat Italy, 6-2, Saturday night in the World Baseball Classic.
The U.S. (1-1) meets Canada (1-1) in the final
game of Pool D play today with the winner advancing to the second round.
Ryan Vogelsong settled down after a shaky
start to get the victory. The San Francisco righthander went four-plus innings, allowing two runs
and six hits, striking out four.

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PRO FOOTBALL

Steelers release LB Harrison
PITTSBURGH â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Pittsburgh Steelers have
released linebacker James Harrison after the
team and the hard-hitting defensive standout
who played on two Super Bowl champions failed
to agree on a new contract. The Steelers made
the announcement Saturday.

SOCCER

Sporting KC falls to Toronto

11 a.m.
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PRO BASKETBALL

Knicks lose Stoudemire
NEW YORK â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Amare Stoudemire needs surgery on his right knee and is expected to miss six
weeks, a stunning blow to the New York Knicks
as they chase the Atlantic Division title.

SLED DOG RACING

Zirkle takes Iditarod lead
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Aliy Zirkle has taken
the lead in Alaskaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
The 43-year-old from Two Rivers, Alaska, was
the first musher out of the checkpoint at Kaltag
Saturday evening.

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Spain v. Venezuela
Canada v. U.S.
D.R. v. Puerto Rico

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MONDAY
College Basketball

Time

Southern final
Sun Belt final
Sumit tourney
West Coast final
Metro Atlantic final
Summit tourney

1961 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wilt Chamberlain of the
Philadelphia Warriors becomes the first
NBA player to score 3,000 points in a
season. Chamberlain scores 32 points
in a 120-103 loss to Detroit to bring his
season total to 3,016.
1991 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Eddie Sutton of Oklahoma
State becomes the first coach to lead
four schools into the NCAA Tournament.
Sutton also coached Creighton, Arkansas
and Kentucky in the tournament.
2004 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Orlandoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tracy McGrady
scores a franchise record 62 points in a
108-99 win over Washington.

While most of his
teammates
entertained
themselves in the locker
room during a two-hour
weather delay before
Kansas University’s baseball series finale with Niagara Saturday afternoon
at Hoglund Ballpark, KU
starting pitcher Thomas
Taylor wanted to keep his
mind on the task at hand.
So the 6-foot-4 senior
right-hander from Overland Park exiled himself to
the KU dugout, watched
the rain fall onto the turf,
Richard Gwin/Journal-World Photos
heard the occasional claps
CORY WHITE, OF OLATHE, RUNS PAST KANSAS FOOTBALL PLAYERS Michael Reynolds (55), Chris Martin (56) and Ty
of thunder and every now
McKinney (97) during a KU football skills clinic for Special Olympians on Saturday at Anschutz Sports Pavilion.
and then found some entertainment on the video
board in right field, which
showed part of Oklahoma
State’s men’s basketball
victory over Kansas State.
“I just sat there and
waited,” Taylor said.
————
Though far from exciting, his approach worked.
Taylor struck out six Purple Eagles in six innings,
earning his second victory
By Matt Tait
of the season as KU swept
mtait@ljworld.com
the four-game series with
an 11-4 win in the rainy fiJay “White Wolf” Horn,
nale.
33, of Pittsburg, had KanTaylor gave up three
sas University’s football
hits in the first inning
team in stitches with
to Niagara (3-13) but got
his intensity, ability and
out of it unscathed, and
dance moves.
all three runs the visitors
Saturday morning at
plated in the fifth against
Anschutz Sports Pavilhim
were
unearned.
ion, the entire KU football
Steady rain, which deteam and its coaching staff
layed the start of the
joined nearly 100 Special
game for two hours and
Olympians from across
20 minutes, continued
Kansas for a 90-minute
off and on throughout the
skills clinic that mixed
afternoon. But Taylor —
football, fun and fits of
who has 198 strikeouts in
laughter.
his career, placing him
Working mostly with
two away from tying Don
KU’s defensive linemen,
Czyz for ninth all-time
Horn stole the show at
in program history —
nearly every station with
said his pre-game focus
a Michael Jackson-esque
helped him get through
encore to each physical
the showers.
accomplishment.
“I just tried to put the
“I tell ya, he could
conditions out of my mind
dance,” KU junior defenand tried to throw strikes,”
sive tackle Keon Stowers
the senior said. “They’re
said. “He could shake a
hitting in it, too, so it’s just
tail feather, and after evas hard for them.”
erything he did he would
After his team earned
get to dancing. I just loved
ABOVE: KANSAS DEFENSIVE
its first sweep of the seait, man. I think I was havCOORDINATOR DAVE CAMPO
son, Kansas coach Ritch
ing more fun than the kids
WORKS with his squad of KU
Price said he could tell
out here.”
football players and Special
a second, 14-minute rain
The clinic was orOlympians on Saturday
delay, which came in
ganized by Hannah &
morning at Anschutz Sports
the middle of the fourth,
Friends, a not-for-profit
Complex. The clinic was
impacted Taylor’s percharity dedicated to imorganized by Hannah &
formance more than the
proving the quality of life
Friends, a charity started by
waiting game he played
for people with different
KU head coach Charlie Weis
before the first pitch.
abilities. On Saturday, the
and wife Maura in honor of
“He wasn’t near as
charity, which was started
their daughter, Hannah.
sharp when he went back
by KU coach Charlie Weis
out, and that’s the hardand his wife, Maura, in
RIGHT: KANSAS COACH
est thing for a pitcher,”
honor of their daughter,
BUDDY WYATT, RIGHT, HOLDS
Price said of a two-hit,
Hannah, got a helping
BACK Cole Browne, of
three-run top of the fifth
hand from the Hannah
Lawrence, during a drill.
for Niagara. “It’s almost
& Jayhawk Friends stulike when you have a long
dent organization, which
inning, when you score a
Maura Weis said was the
lot of runs. In a big-league
fastest-growing group on
game you see the pitcher
KU’s campus.
go back out and struggle
“I think that people
with his command the
with special needs bring at next weekend’s Big 12 team, the day turned out freshman Tevin Shaw on
next inning. I thought that
special people out,” she championship game in to be memorable for all the Jayhawks’ pre-spring
depth chart, which was
said. “They root for them, Kansas City, Mo.
parties involved.
and they help, and they
“When you have the
“It was great to meet released last Monday,
want to volunteer. They opportunity to be around the players and make new but, as of Saturday, was
just bring something out these special individu- friends,” Horn said before no longer listed on the
in the human spirit that als that have so much revealing that he got his roster.
KU officials confirmed
you can’t hold back. For life and energy and cha- dance moves “from hip
Mitchell’s departure Satthe kids to come out this risma, it’s so much fun to hop.”
early on a Saturday morn- put a smile on their face
Added Stowers: “It’s a urday night.
ing and help with this is and just know that you’re good feeling to come out
And, through an athletic
amazing. Charlie said they making their day,” junior here and be able to put department spokesperson,
J-W Staff Reports
were really psyched to quarterback Jake Heaps some joy in their life. This Weis said Mitchell left the
come out here and I could said. “The thing I enjoyed probably will stick with team Tuesday, and he
BOCA RATON, FLA. —
really tell.”
the most was just seeing them for the rest of their wished him well in the fuKansas University junior
The clinic preceded Day all the guys on our team lives.”
ture.
Alex Jones pitched the
3 of KU’s spring practices, really enjoy the moment,
Mitchell served as a reJayhawk softball team to
the first in pads, and pro- have fun and connect with Safety Mitchell leaves
serve safety in 2012, apa two victories on SaturJunior Ray Mitchell, a pearing in 11 of the team’s
vided a quick break from these guys. I think it really
day at the
college football’s constant shows what our team is safety from MacArthur 12 games and finishing
Florida AtHigh in Irving, Texas, is with six tackles.
intensity. It also featured like.”
lantic Inan appearance by Bekah
Throughout his KU
From kicking and tack- no longer a member of the
vitational.
Henderson, of Topeka, ling drills to funny pos- KU football team.
career, which included a
Jones
Mitchell, 6-foot, 190 red-shirt season in 2010,
who recently was named es in front of the green
took the
the Big 12 Special Olym- screen that produced pic- pounds, was listed as Mitchell played sparingly
mound in
pics female athlete of the tures of the participants a second-string strong on both defense and spethe sixth
year and will be honored “on the field” with the safety behind red-shirt cial teams.
inning
of Game Jones
1
and
threw six
only sixth in the 400 in
straight outs as KU held
52.38. The Olympic gold
off Ball State, 8-7. In Game
medalist earned her third
2, Jones picked up where
State in Second Varsity Four,
straight All-America hon- KU rowing races
she left off and threw five
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1B
Varsity Four, Second Varsity
or.
shutout innings with eight
at OU Invite
Eight and Varsity Eight.
And
KU’s
Lindsay
strikeouts and just four
Amy Linnen won the Vollmer collected perOKLAHOMA CITY — Kanhits as Kansas run-ruled
KU women’s golf host FAU, 10-0.
pole vault for KU in 2005. sonal bests in three of five sas University’s rowing
Also Saturday, the KU events and placed ninth team opened its spring
improved to 5-0
in 12th after two onJones
women’s
4X400-meter overall in the pentathlon season on Saturday at the
the season, and the
MESA, ARIZ. — Kansas
relay team earned a with 4,105 points.
Oklahoma Invitational.
Jayhawks (18-5) earned
University’ women’s golf
point by placing eighth
Kansas’ Varsity Four and
The Jayhawks will be
their fourth victory of the
in 3:34.91, but Diamond idle until they kick off the Second Varsity Eight earned team sits in 12th after two
weekend tournament.
rounds, Saturday at the CloDixon — who, like Geu- outdoor portion of their wins over the University of
“A.J. (Alex Jones) had a
ver Cup. The rain-adjusted
belle, was hoping to re- season March 27-30 at the Central Oklahoma. KU also
great day,” KU coach Metourney ends today.
peat as champ — placed Texas Relays.
won duals against Kansas
gan Smith said after the

A special day for all

KU football hosts fun-filled clinic for Special Olympians

“

I just tried to put
the conditions out of
my mind and tried to
throw strikes. They’re
hitting in it, too, so it’s
just as hard for them.”
— Kansas University pitcher
Thomas Taylor
was the only time he lost
his focus.”
Purple Eagles designated hitter Christian Vangeison crushed a three-run
double to right-center field
in the fifth to put a minor
dent in what had become a
7-0 lead for the Jayhawks
(10-5). But Taylor got Greg
Rodgers to line out to second baseman Tommy Mirabelli to end the inning,
and struck out two of the
four batters he faced in the
sixth. Junior reliever Jordan Piché pitched three innings and gave up one run
for his second save.
KU built a seven-run advantage with three-run innings in the first and third
and by plating one run in
the second. Jordan Dreiling (sacrifice fly), Michael
Suiter (single) and Connor
McKay (infield fly) drove
in a run apiece in the first.
Dreiling made it a 4-0 KU
lead in the second when
he drilled an RBI-single
off of starting pitcher
Kyle Olver’s ankle. Kansas
piled on in the third with
an RBI-double from Mirabelli and a two-run single
from Dakota Smith.
A sophomore outfielder
from Leavenworth, Smith
went 2-for-5 with three
RBI and said most of the
Jayhawks waited out the
weather delay by watching TV in the locker room.
With just one more game
separating Kansas from
the start of conference
play, Smith said the Jayhawks wanted to make up
for a mildly productive offensive doubleheader the
day before.
“We knew we needed to
come out and get rolling
coming into Big 12 play,
and we knew we could do
it this weekend,” Smith
said after KU registered
13 hits, matching its twogame total from Friday’s
doubleheader.
Kansas will play host
to Jackson State at 3 p.m.
Wednesday before traveling to Fort Worth, Texas,
for a three-game series at
TCU, which begins on Friday.
Niagara
Kansas

doubleheader. “She was
lights-out in the circle,
and I was really proud of
her today.”
Smith had plenty to
be proud of herself: The
fourth-year coach earned
her 100th and 101st victories at KU.
The Jayhawks will face
Louisiana Monroe at 8
a.m. today.
Kansas 8 Ball State 7
Kansas
Ball State

Pair of Bears did most damage vs. KU
By Tom Keegan
tkeegan@ljworld.com

WACO, TEXAS — This
is what transpired on the
Ferrell Center court in the
minutes before and after
Kansas University officially became co-champion of the Big 12 Saturday,
when it lost to Baylor, 8158.
Baylor senior guard A.J.
Walton dropped on his
back onto the floor and
then kissed the giant BU.
Pierre Jackson then kissed

the floor, and they both
checked out.
After the final buzzer
sounded, students lined up
at the corners of the floor, as
instructed by security personnel. Baylor coach Scott
Drew, holding a microphone,
beckoned the students onto
the floor for a less-thanspontaneous, ahem, “storming” of the court.
The lopsided victory
injected badly needed life
into Baylor’s tournament
hopes. The Bears (18-13
overall, 9-9 in the Big 12)

had lost five of their last
six games heading into the
regular-season finale.
Baylor appeared so big,
fast and skilled Saturday it
raised the question of how
such a talented team possibly could go on such a
bad stretch.
“I think we’re good,”
Jackson said. “We just
have to stick our game
plan and defend. When we
defend and rebound, we’re
a good team. I’m trying to
preach that to the team.”
When Baylor defends,

rebounds and gets two
performances such as the
ones delivered by Jackson
and junior forward Cory
Jefferson, it resembles a
great team.
The Bears scored the
rout against the nation’s
No. 4 team without getting a point from their
bench. They didn’t need
much beyond the 53 points
Jackson and Jefferson
combined for on 22-of-26
shooting, including 5-of-6
from three-point land.
Jefferson came into

the day 0-for-7 for his career from three and made
three of three three-point
attempts Saturday.
Asked if the coach had
given him the green light
to shoot them, Jefferson
said he did, at which point
Jackson’s eyes bugged out
of his head.
“Coach gave him the
green light after he made
the second one,” Jackson
said.
Jackson had little trouble getting around KU’s
guards on his way to 28

points, 10 assists, six rebounds and two steals in
38 minutes.
Jefferson had 25 points,
seven rebounds and three
blocked shots.
The Bears shot .577
overall and hit half their
three-point attempts and
played inspired basketball
at both ends.
“Let’s face it, when the
ball goes in, it makes everybody play better on the
defensive end,” Drew said.
“When you make shots,
it’s a big difference.”

Mike Yoder/Journal-World Photos

BAYLOR’S CORY JEFFERSON (34) LAUNCHES A SHOT over KU’s Jeff Withey (5). Chances are good it went in: Jefferson was 11-for-13 in a 81-58 victory Saturday in Waco, Texas.

Kansas
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1B

play harder (knowing a
win would give KU the
undisputed crown).
“We were talking in the
locker room beforehand.
Maybe we thought it was
ours already. Baylor didn’t
(and) beat us up,” Withey
added.
The Bears handed the
Jayhawks their secondworst loss in the 10-year
Bill Self era. Texas beat
KU by 25 points (80-55) on
Feb. 25, 2006, in Austin,
Texas.
“I went in and told
my team, ‘Hey, bad job,
but
congratulations,’
one of those deals,” Self
said. “I’m happy we
got a ninth. I will never
apologize for winning
a league championship.
It’s not entirely the way
we scripted it, which is
obvious.”
BU’s Cory Jefferson,
who had never hit a three
in his career, went 3-for3 from three and scored
25 points with seven rebounds and three blocks.
Guard Pierre Jackson hit
11 of 13 shots, good for 28
points with 10 assists and
six rebounds. He was four
boards shy of a triple-double.
“They were terrific.
They totally dominated
the game,” Self said.
Did Self think Jefferson
could shoot that well?
“Hell no,” Self said with
a laugh.
Self said he didn’t think
the Jayhawks relaxed just
because they knew they’d
claim at least a tie for the
league title no matter what
happened against Baylor.
“I would think it’d play
to our favor,” Self said. “I’d
like to blame it on that.

KU’S PERRY ELLIS (34) SPLITS defenders for a layup.
I can’t blame it on that.
We have played with our
backs to the wall (since
three-game losing streak).
We had the golden opportunity and didn’t jump
through the hoop.
“If K-State would have
won today, this would
have been the pressure
of an NCAA Tournament game. You’d have
to win to get a piece of it.
It would have put us in a
one-and-done mind-set.
We didn’t have that as
much. It seems to me it’d
be easier to play.
“I’m not Joe Lunardi
(of bracketology fame) ...
Baylor needed this game.
They got it. They deserve
to be in the tournament. I
think this will put them in
the field.”
KU, which was led by
Ben McLemore’s 23 points,
actually had a chance to
win this one down the
stretch. The Jayhawks cut
a 17-point deficit to six
(61-55 at 6:21), courtesy of
an 11-0 run (Perry Ellis six
points, McLemore five).
But BU dominated the
rest of the game, finishing with 20 points to KU’s
three.
“When we cut it to six, I
still thought we were still
climbing a pretty steep

hill,” Self said. “We were
in the game, we just had
to get stops. Isaiah Austin
made a great left-handed
hook shot (to start gameending run). It was a pro
move. We gave them four
points right after that
with our offense. We had
a chance to get back in it
multiple times and didn’t
take advantage. They
made plays. They had two
players play about as well
as any two have played
against us in a long time
on the same team.”
Asked what happened
after KU cut it to six,
Withey noted: “Every
time we did something
good, they did something
better. It’s all defense.”
BU hit 57.7 percent of
its shots to KU’s 37.5 percent. “I’m not happy,” Self
said. “I’m a lot happier
than I would be if it was
different and we finished
second. Now we have a
chance to go to Kansas
City (for Big 12 Tournament) and see who the
best team is basically.”
KU, as the No. 1 seed in
the Big 12 Tournament,
will play at 2 p.m. Thursday against the winner of
Wednesday’s game between Texas Tech and
West Virginia.

KANSAS’ BEN MCLEMORE SLAMS FOR TWO OF HIS TEAM-HIGH 23 POINTS in the Jayhawks’ 81-58 loss to Baylor on Saturday in Waco, Texas.

KU SCHEDULE

Keegan
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1B

strike you as one capable of
winning 17 games in a row?
No? Not helping?
OK, consider then that
every team gets really
unlucky once in a while
and runs into a player
who for the first time in
his life shoots as he never
had before in a game. Six
seasons ago, Marchello
Vealy made seven of eight
three-pointers to lead
Oral Roberts to an earlyseason upset of Kansas in
Allen Fieldhouse. Vealy
had made one of 13 threes
the previous season.
Cory Jefferson, one of
those long leapers who
loves to power dunk that
Baylor always seems
to have, had attempted
seven three-pointers in
his career before Saturday
and missed them all. He
shot three in this rout and
made them all on the way
to matching his career
high with 25 points. The
odds of something like
that happening to Kansas again this month are
astronomical, so it’s good
the Jayhawks got that
bad-luck bite out of their
systems.
None of that worked,
did it? OK, how about
trying the truth, which
is where Kansas coach
Bill Self will go with his
players, with whom he
clinched a share of his
ninth consecutive Big 12
title Saturday because
Kansas State lost at Oklahoma State.
The truth is for Kansas
to have any shot of making it to Atlanta for the Final Four it must play with
a sharp edge, an in-yourface competitive spirit.
That was nowhere to be
found Saturday, except
from the opposition.
It was clear which team
was in single-elimination
mode and which had
clinched something earlier in the day.
Thrashing Kansas the
way it did drove Baylor from a seat on the
wrong side of the NCAA
Tournament bubble to
the right side. In recent
seasons, Baylor has
resembled NBA teams in
more ways than having
high-leaping long bodies
all over the place. The

BAYLOR’S PIERRE JACKSON (55) PICKS UP A STEAL and advances it up-court as he’s
trailed by KU’s Jeff Withey.
Bears (18-13, 9-9) tend to
play with an NBA regularseason jog during conference play and pump it
up to another speed in
the postseason and twice
have advanced to the Elite
Eight under Scott Drew.
When locked in and
turned up, Kansas can
look fast, quick, explosive
and anchored by a beast
of a shot-blocking defender.
When he’s tuned in,
senior power forward
Kevin Young disrupts opponents with hustle and
explosiveness and spurs
teammates to greater
heights. When he’s at less
than his best, such as Saturday, he looks too frail
to play with the heavyweights, too unskilled to
merit playing time.
Point guards Elijah
Johnson and Naadir Tharpe had been playing so
well until Saturday. One
game does not a regression make, but it served
as a reminder of just how
ordinary Kansas can look
without the point guards
collapsing the defense.
KU’s seven-game win-

ning streak ended. The
streak started after a
three-game losing streak
that started with a homecourt loss to Oklahoma
State.
How tough will it be for
the team to put this one
behind it and start anew?
“I don’t know, because
I thought when we lost
to Oklahoma State I
thought we’d react fine,
and we didn’t react very
well to that,” Self said. “I
may take a little different approach this time.
I’m not sure what yet.
The bottom line is, our
second season is done.
Everybody’s is done. Now
the third season starts,
and everybody’s starting
fresh. I can’t imagine we
won’t be fresh and excited
and confident moving
forward.”
He also put it this way:
“We got punched in the
mouth today without
question, but we’ll get
up.”
If hearing a coach who
has won nine consecutive Big 12 titles say that
doesn’t make you feel bet- KU’S ELIJAH JOHNSON (15) LAYS IN A BASKET in
front of Baylor’s Rico Gathers.
ter, I’m out of ideas.

Not much to say
Kansas University senior
point guard Elijah Johnson
was a man of precious few
words after Saturday’s 8158 loss to Baylor in Ferrell
Center.
“Went brain-dead,” is
how he described what
took place after KU cut a
17-point deficit to six during
crunch time, only to have
the Bears outscore KU,
20-3, the rest of the way en
route a 23-point victory.
“Unexpected. Not Pierre,
unexpected from Jefferson,” Johnson added of
the explosive scoring of
forward Cory Jefferson,
who had 25 points off 11of-13 shooting. Point guard
Pierre Jackson, the Big
12’s leading scorer, had 28
also off 11-of-13 marksmanship.
Johnson merely shook
his head from side to side
as his response to three
other questions from media
members after his Jayhawks fell to 26-5 overall,
14-4 in league play. Obviously, he and the Jayhawks
were not happy campers as
they exited Ferrell Center,
despite winning a piece of
the Big 12 title (with Kansas
State).
“I mean, it was pretty
quiet (in locker room),” said
freshman Perry Ellis, who
scored 12 points off 5-of-7
shooting. “There’s nothing
we can do now. We’ve got
to go to the Big 12 tournament and just play.”
Ellis said he “was trying
to be aggressive and help
my team,” when he entered
early for Kevin Young, who
picked up two quick fouls.
Ellis played 22 minutes,
Young 15.
Wooden finalists
KU’s Ben McLemore
and Jeff Withey have been
named two of 15 finalists
for the 2013 John R. Wooden Award, the Los Angeles
Athletic Club announced
on ESPN College GameDay
Saturday.
Other finalists: Anthony
Bennett, UNLV; Trey Burke,
Michigan; Erick Green,
Virginia Tech; Shane Larkin,
Miami (Fla.); Doug McDermott, Creighton; Victor
Oladipo, Indiana; Kelly
Olynyk, Gonzaga; Mason
Plumlee, Duke; Otto Porter,
Georgetown; Marcus Smart,
Oklahoma State; Deshaun
Thomas, Ohio State; Nate
Wolters, South Dakota
State; Cody Zeller, Indiana.
The 10-player Wooden
Award All American Team
will be announced the week
of the “Elite Eight” round
of the NCAA Tournament.
The Wooden Player of the
Year will be announced on
ESPN during the Final Four
Weekend in Atlanta.
The 2013 Wooden Award
Gala will take place April
11-13, 2013, at The Los
Angeles Athletic Club. Self
will receive the Legends
of Coaching Award at the
banquet.
Gear available
KU’s 2013 Big 12 championship hats and T-shirts
were on sale at kuathletics.com and kustore.com
moments after Oklahoma
State wrapped up a 76-70
victory over Kansas State
about 3:15 p.m. Saturday.
Next
KU, as the No. 1 seed in
the Big 12 Tournament,
will play at 2 p.m. Thursday against the winner
of Wednesday’s game
between Texas Tech and
West Virginia. Thursday’s
winner will play in the
6:30 p.m. semifinals Friday
against either Oklahoma or
Iowa State. The finals are 5
p.m. Saturday.
This, that
KU was led in scoring by
McLemore, who matched
his jersey number with 23
points — his highest total in
a road game this season —
and passed Danny Manning (496) to become the
all-time leading freshman
scorer in Kansas history
with 517 points during the
regular season. ... KU leads
the all-time series with BU,
19-4, with wins in four of
the last six meetings. BU
beat KU in Waco for the
first time since 2001.

6B

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Sunday, March 10, 2013

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BIG 12 MEN’S ROUNDUP

L AWRENCE J OURNAL -W ORLD

BIG 12 WOMEN’S ROUNDUP

No. 1 Baylor stomps KSU
coming from the Kansas
State bench was a loud
countdown each time the
shot clock was about to
expire. When those possessions didn’t end in violations, the Wildcats were
throwing up wild shots
that had little chance to
go in.

The Associated Press

Sue Ogrocki/AP Photo

OKLAHOMA STATE FORWARD PHILIP JURICK, LEFT, FOULS Kansas State forward
Nino Williams as Williams shoots in the second half on Saturday in Stillwater, Okla.
Oklahoma State won, 76-70.

Smart, Cowboys top
Wildcats, 76-70
The Associated Press

“I bet if you went and
watched it, it wasn’t an
offensive foul. So, that
changed the game, the
momentum a lot,” Weber
said. “But then they made
plays and we didn’t.”
McGruder led the Wildcats with 22 points. He
had a big game when the
teams met in the Big 12
opener, scoring 28 points
and making all five of his
three-point attempts to
lead K-State to a victory.
He couldn’t match that
this time, connecting on
only six of his 15 shots.
Thomas
Gipson
chipped in 15 points and
Angel Rodriguez scored
10, but also struggled to a
3-for-16 outing.
“They’ve got some
pretty good athletes that
can guard and defend,
and they made their focus
— there’s no doubt — to
make sure that Rod and
Angel were jammed up as
much as possible,” Weber
said.
The Wildcats allowed
Oklahoma State to shoot
57 percent while making
just 39 percent of their
own shots, but still managed to hang in until the
final minutes for a chance
to stretch their winning
streak to seven and —
more importantly — win
an elusive conference
title.
“It’s been fun. It’s been
a blast,” Weber said. “I
just hope, for their sake
there’s some more good
things to come.”
After
McGruder’s
three-point play and Rodriguez’s charge, Kansas
State missed eight straight
attempts. Smart said there
had been some build-up
to the call, with referees
warning both Smart and
Rodriguez to stop pushing
off.
“At that moment in
time, he gave me a little
nudge that was enough
for the referee to blow his
whistle,” Smart said. “Actually, I wasn’t trying to
fall. I actually slipped and
it just looked like I fell, like
I tried to make it a flop.
But I actually slipped. It
was a nudge but it wasn’t
enough to make me fall.”
The Wildcats will be the
No. 2 seed in next week’s
Big 12 tournament. Oklahoma State will be the
third seed and face Baylor
in the opening round.

No. 13 Oklahoma St. 76,
No. 9 Kansas State 70
STILLWATER, OKLA. —
Coach Travis Ford can’t
be certain whether NBA
prospect Marcus Smart
has played his last home
game at Oklahoma State.
If he did, he went out
with one of his typical beyond-the-box-score plays,
changing the game and
the Big 12 championship
picture.
Smart scored 21 points,
but perhaps none of his
plays was as big as the
charging foul he drew that
turned the momentum as
the Cowboys beat Kansas
State on Saturday.
After
officials
had
stopped the game to review a Smart jump shot
and rule that it was not a
three-pointer but a two,
he got between Angel Rodriguez and the sideline
and drew the foul as Rodriguez tried to catch an
inbound pass.
Smart ended up with
six points — plus drawing
Rodriguez’s foul — during
the decisive 14-1 run for the
Cowboys (23-7, 13-5 Big 12).
“The
momentum
changed for us, and we
opened the game up,”
Smart said.
Smart’s heady play
came as no surprise to
Ford, who has seen his
freshman point guard develop into a Big 12 player
of the year candidate
without needing to be his
team’s leading scorer.
“He is going to be in
the middle of the action
and more times than not,
he’s going to make a positive play. ... That’s just his
game,” Ford said. “That’s
just his nature. That’s the
way he plays.”
Le’Bryan Nash contributed 24 points, and Markel
Brown scored 16, including seven free throws in
the final two minutes for
Oklahoma State.
The Wildcats (25-6, 144), who came into the day
tied with rival Kansas for
the conference lead, still
ended up sharing their
first regular-season conference title since 1977 in
the Big Eight when the
fourth-ranked Jayhawks
lost at Baylor later Saturday.
K-State led by as much
as nine in the second half
and was up 61-57 followST. (25-6)
ing Rodney McGruder’s KANSAS
Henriquez 0-0 0-0 0, Southwell 3-8
three-point play with 4:45 0-0 7, Irving 2-5 2-2 8, Rodriguez 3-16
10, McGruder 6-15 7-8 22, Williams
remaining. The Cowboys 4-5
1-4 0-2 2, Lawrence 0-0 0-0 0, Diaz 0-0
didn’t allow another field 0-0 0, Gipson 7-10 1-2 15, Johnson 0-0
goal for more than 4 min- 0-0 0, Spradling 2-3 0-1 6. Totals 24-61
70.
utes and hit 13 straight 14-20
OKLAHOMA ST. (23-7)
Nash 10-12 4-5 24, Cobbins 4-7 1-2
free throws during crunch
Jurick 0-2 0-0 0, Brown 3-7 8-10 16,
time to come away with 9,
Smart 7-11 6-7 21, Gardner 0-0 0-0
the win.
0, Williams 1-3 0-2 2, Forte 0-2 4-4 4,
0-0 0-0 0. Totals 25-44 23-30 76.
It was 61-59 when Smart Murphy
Halftime-Oklahoma St. 36-30. 3-Point
drew the charge, then got Goals-Kansas St. 8-23 (McGruder 3-7,
2-3, Irving 2-5, Southwell
fouled by Thomas Gipson Spradling
1-4, Rodriguez 0-4), Oklahoma St.
on a three-point attempt 3-9 (Brown 2-4, Smart 1-2, Williams
and hit two free throws to 0-1, Forte 0-2). Fouled Out-Southwell,
Rebounds-Kansas St. 29
tie it. Nash followed with Williams.
(Gipson, Williams 6), Oklahoma St.
a driving layup to put the 32 (Jurick 8). Assists-Kansas St. 14
6), Oklahoma St. 13 (Smart
Cowboys ahead to stay at (Rodriguez
6). Total Fouls-Kansas St. 25, Oklahoma
63-61 with 2:47 remaining. St. 17. A-13,611.
Kansas State coach
Bruce Weber called Ro- TCU 70, Oklahoma 67
DALLAS — Garlon Green
driguez’s charge the “big,
changing play” of the scored 18 points in his final home game, but TCU
game.

No. 1 Baylor 80,
Kansas State 47
DALLAS — Brittney Griner had 19 points, 13 rebounds and a career-best
nine assists, and Baylor
built a quick 25-point lead
in a victory against Kansas State in the quarterfinals of the Big 12 women’s
tournament Saturday.
Griner’s effort came
five days after she scored
a Big 12-record 50 points
in a win over the Wildcats
in her final regular season
home game.
Kansas State (15-17) was
within three points well
into the second half of last
weekend’s loss in Waco,
but this time the Wildcats
were down 21-3 just seven
minutes in when coach
Deb Patterson called her
third timeout.
Destiny Williams had
20 points to lead the Lady
Bears (30-1), who clinched
their third straight season
with at least 30 wins.
Brittany
Chambers
led Kansas State with 21
points.
Patterson ended up using all four 30-second
timeouts in the first 11
minutes, the last when
Odyssey Sims hit a short
jumper after a turnover
for a 31-6 lead.
All of Chambers’ points
came in the second half
with the outcome already
decided. The Wildcats’
leading scorer was 0-of-6
from the field before halftime.
The Wildcats didn’t
have a two-point basket
before halftime, when
Baylor led 45-18 after outscoring Kansas State 30-0
in the paint. Kansas State
had five three-pointers
while going 0-of-9 from
inside the arc in the first
half. The Wildcats shot 29
percent for the game, and
12 of their 16 baskets were
from long range.
The Lady Bears repeatedly got easy buckets inside and out while shooting 68 percent in the first
half and 58 for the game.
When Griner wasn’t
scoring herself, she was
finding Williams and

LM Otero/AP Photo

BAYLOR’S BRITTNEY GRINER
(42) SHOOTS over Kansas
State’s Mariah White during
the second half on Saturday
in the Big 12 Conference
tournament in Dallas. Baylor
won, 80-47.
others. Five Baylor players scored at least eight,
and Griner had almost as
many assists (seven) as
points (eight) before halftime, even though coach
Kim Mulkey at one point
implored her to “score
first, pass second.”
Kansas State tried to
challenge Griner a few
times early, but that just
meant she had three
blocks over a three-minute stretch. The Wildcats
finally got their first twopoint basket on a layup by
Brittany Chambers with 16
minutes left in the game.
Sims limped around for
part of the first half, eventually leaving the game
and taking off her left
shoe on the bench. She returned a few minutes later
and was the third double-figure scorer with 10
points. She also had seven
assists.
The Wildcats had two
shot-clock violations in
the first six minutes, including one after Griner
emphatically stuffed a layup attempt on a drive by
Chambers.
About the only noise

Oklahoma State 59,
Texas Tech 54
Kendra Suttles scored
16 points and Toni Young
had 11 points and 18 rebounds to lead Oklahoma
State past Texas Tech in
the Big 12 women’s tournament quarterfinals.
The Lady Raiders, who
beat the Cowgirls twice
during the regular season,
pulled within a point three
times in the last 3 1/2 minutes but committed a turnover with the only chance
they had to take the lead.
Young put Oklahoma
State (21-9) up 55-52 with
38 seconds left when she
was fouled after an offensive rebound and made
both free throws.
Liz Donohoe scored
13, putting the Cowgirls ahead for good on a
3-pointer late in the first
half and icing the win with
four free throws in the
last 21 seconds. Brittney
Martin had 14 points and
a game-high seven steals.
Kelsi Baker led Texas
Tech (21-10) with 17 points
and a season-high 14 rebounds.
Oklahoma 65,
West Virginia 64
Sharane
Campbell
drained a go-ahead free
throw with five seconds
remaining as Oklahoma
came back from a 22-point
second-half deficit to beat
West Virginia in the Big 12
tournament quarterfinals.
Campbell was fouled on
a layup attempt by Crystal Leary and made noe of
two shots. Bria Holmes got
off an unsuccessful threepoint attempt at the buzzer for the Mountaineers.
Nicole Griffin had 16
points, Campbell 15 and
Aaryn Ellenberg 12 for the
third-seeded Sooners (229), who play No. 2 Iowa
State in today’s semifinals.

league, and we have one
team ranked, maybe two,
and we deserve better
than that as a league. Outside, a lot of people don’t
understand how good the
league is and how competitive it is.”
Carolyn Davis, one of
four returning starters
from last year’s surprising Sweet 16 team, led KU
with 17 points Saturday.
“We don’t know (what
the future holds),” she
said. “We think we’ve had
some great wins, and we
are kind of in the same po-

Tony Gutierrez/AP Photo

IOWA STATE’ ANNA PRINS LOOKS FOR A SHOT
against Kansas’ Carolyn Davis (21) in the first half
on Saturday in the Big 12 women’s tournament in
Dallas. ISU won, 77-62.
sition we were last year.
We’ll just have to wait and
see.”
Angel Goodrich contributed 15 points for KU,
and Chelsea Gardner added 12.
“Well, just like coach
said, we are not so sure
what’s going to happen,
but we have got to stay
positive, look forward,
keep practicing and get
better,” Goodrich said,
“because more than likely
we want to still play.”
Saturday the Jayhawks
(18-13) jumped to an 8-2
start, but Iowa State
quickly tied it at 8, then
gradually pulled away to a
34-26 halftime edge.
ISU (22-7) led by as

many as 22 in the second
half.
The Jayhawks were outrebounded 40-29 and outscored by 13 from the freethrow line.
“I thought in the second
half, our two all-conference players played like
it,” ISU coach Bill Fennelly
said, referring to Poppens
and Christofferson. “Our
senior, Anna Prins, played
like it. When you only turn
the ball over two times in
the second half and defend
like we defended, you’re
going to beat some people.
“So it’s exciting for us to
be in the semifinals, and
we are honored that Iowa
State go to move to the
right in the bracket.”

6A Boys
Blue Valley Northwest 46,
Blue Valley West 29
WICHITA — Blue Valley
Northwest capped a perfect season Saturday with
a win over Blue Valley
West to take the Kansas
Class 6A high school boys
basketball title.
Clayton Custer led with
21 points as Northwest
finished the season 25-0.
Kyle Harrison had 10 for
Northwest in the victory.
Blaise Gammon had 13
for West, which was the
No. 7 seed in the tournament and finished the year
15-10. Gammon also pulled
down eight rebounds.
Northwest took control of the game with a
Travis Heying/The Wichita Eagle/AP Photo
14-point halftime lead and
BLUE VALLEY NORTHWEST PLAYERS CELEBRATE
held West to 13 points in
with fans after defeating Blue Valley West, 46-29, to
the second half.
win the Class 6A state championship on Saturday at
Koch Arena in Wichita.

5A Boys

24-point, 14-rebound performance to lead the Jaguars past Wichita Kapaun
Mt. Carmel in the thirdplace game of the Class 5A
boys state tournament.
Mill
Valley
(20-4)
jumped to a 21-8 first quarter lead before the Crusaders (17-7) came back to
make it a two-point game
Mill Valley 75,
late in the fourth quarter.
Kapaun Mt. Carmel 70
But freshman Logan Koch
TOPEKA — Mill Val- hit two foul shots and came
ley senior Nathan Stacy up with a steal on the other
ended his career with a end to seal the game.

SM South 46, Lansing 40
TOPEKA — Shawnee
Mission South competed
an undefeated season with
a victory over Lansing for
the boys Class 5A basketball championship.
The Raiders finished
25-0, led by 16 points from
Dainan Swoope.

4A boys’ basketball title
in Salina’s Bicentennial
Center.
The Cyclones were led
by Semi Ojeleye with 27
points and 15 rebounds.
The Duke University
signee was 10-of-17 from
the field and 4-of-7 from
the free-throw line.
Dallas Natt tossed in 12
for Ottawa (25-0).
The Scots (24-1) were
led by Jahmal McMurray’s 18 points, including
4-of-13 shooting from the
three-point line. Shaffee
Carr had nine, and Jamon
Fulton added 8.

3A Boys
Scott City 74,
Humboldt 55
HUTCHINSON — Four
players reached double
figures to lead Scott City
over Humboldt in the
Class 3A boys’ championship.

2A Boys

Mill Valley’s third-place
finish betters the pro- Republic County 64,
gram’s fourth-place finish Meade 53
MANHATTAN — Repubin 2006 in its only other
lic County outlasted No. 1
state appearance.
seed Meade in overtime to
win the Class 2A boys title
4A Boys
in Bramlage Coliseum.
Ottawa 54,
Highland Park 45
1A-DII Boys
SALINA
—
Ottawa
broke open a tight game Axtell 65,
with 16 points in the Fowler 56
HAYS — Axtell turned
fourth quarter to outlast Topeka’s Highland in a strong second half to
Park Scots for the Class power past Fowler for the

Kansas Class 1A-Division Page added 20 to lead the
Wamego girls to a victory
II boys championship.
over McPherson to claim
the Class 4A champion6A Girls
ship.
Wichita South 46,
Wichita Heights 44
3A Girls
WICHITA — Three players
scored in double figures to Burlington 54,
lead Wichita South to a vic- Garden Plain 42
HUTCHINSON — Burlingtory over Wichita Heights
for the Class 6A girls cham- ton built a 13-point halftime
lead and cruised to the finpionship.
ish line, defeating Garden
Plain to win the Class 3A
5A Girls
girls title and cap an undeSt. Thomas Aquinas 23, feated season.
Mill Valley 22
TOPEKA — St. Thomas
2A Girls
Aquinas built a sevenpoint halftime lead but Smith Center 63,
had to hold off a late Jefferson Co. North 55
MANHATTAN — Smith
charge to beat Mill Valley in the Kansas Class 5A Center withstood a comeback attempt by defending
girls championship.
Aquinas (24-1) was up champion Jefferson Coun15-8 to start the third quar- ty North to win the Class
ter but saw the Jaguars 2A girls title at Bramlage
chip the lead down late. Coliseum.
A last second shot by Mill
Valley came up short as
1A-DI Girls
time expired.
Kendra Weledji had Hoxie 68, Olpe 63
EMPORIA — Hoxie held
nine points, and Claire
Ferguson added five to off a late charge in the
fourth quarter to beat
lead the Saints.
Mill Valley (22-2) was Olpe in the Class 1A-Diviled by Tanner Tripp who sion 1 championship.
topped all scorers with 14
points. Stephanie Lichten1A-DII Girls
aur added six for the Jaguars.
Ingalls 37,
Norwich 22
4A Girls
HAYS — Ingalls held
Wamego 60,
Norwich to 28 percent
McPherson 53
shooting from the field to
SALINA — Kalyee Page win the Class 1A Division 2
scored 22, and Lanie girls title.

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Washington Wizards, one
of the few NBA teams who
can actually call the Charlotte Bobcats a nemesis,
did their bit to rectify that
notion, with Trevor Ariza
scoring a season-high 26
points.
The Wizards never
trailed and shot 50 percent
as they handed the leagueworst Bobcats their 10th
straight loss, most of
which haven’t been competitive.

Nuggets 111,
Timberwolves 88
DENVER — Ty Lawson
matched his season high
with 32 points, including 14 in the fourth quarter, and Denver beat the
Minnesota to stretch its
home winning streak to
13 games, its longest in 14
years.
Corey Brewer had 15
points, while Danilo Gallinari and Andre Iguodala
added 11 apiece for the
Nuggets, who have won
eight in a row overall. Fueled by their longest home
winning streak since a
19-game run from Jan.
28-April 20, 1989, the Nuggets ran their home record
to 28-3.

LOS ANGELES — It was
the summer of 2004, and
an aging sports owner
was faced with a decision for the ages. It was a
choice between two small
words with giant ramifications. It was a hurried
selection that would last
forever.
Kobe or Shaq?
The debate had raged
for years, and now Lakers owner Jerry Buss felt
he had to end it. Kobe
Bryant and Shaquille
O’Neal, filled with blatant
animosity stemming from
the deepest of jealousies,
could no longer play
together. Even three
championships couldn’t
bond them and, at the
first possible moment
that summer, they both
attempted to flee.
O’Neal begged to be
traded. Bryant opted out
of his contract. Buss felt
he couldn’t keep them
both. He believed he had

COMMENTARY
to pick one. This Hall
of Famer or that Hall of
Famer? This son, or that
son? In today’s era of
corporate ownership, it
was the sort of personnel decision that is rarely
made by a single person.
Yet Buss alone made
the call. It was one of the
boldest calls in the history
of Southern California
sports. It became one of
the most criticized calls
in the history of the NBA.
Yet Buss unflinchingly
made it, and stood behind
it, and, nine years later, on
a Wednesday night in New
Orleans, his choice could
be seen storming downcourt for a clinching dunk
and a gritted-teeth growl
as the Lakers came from a
25-point deficit to win.
Even those of us who
have resisted saying it
for years can say it now,
because a man’s legacy
has been completed by it.

Jerry Buss picked Kobe
Bryant, and he was right.
Jerry Buss traded
O’Neal in what this columnist called a “Shaqtacular mistake,” yet Buss
was right, and continues
to be right, today more
than ever, his mortality
continually honored by a
guy playing at the level of
the immortals.
The uniform patch is
sweet, the memorial service was moving, but less
than a month after Buss’
death, his memory is most
alive every night through
a scarred veteran whose
17th season might be his
most impactful yet.
Buss picked Bryant as
if he knew that not only
would he win two more
championships with some
of his best teams, but that
he would shoulder the
Lakers’ most disappointing team with dignity and
strength through a season
of uncertainty and loss.
Bryant will not be the
most valuable player. But
in some ways he’s never

been better. He has furiously pushed the Lakers
through their dysfunction
and chaos while chugging
his legs at a level never
seen by someone burdened by so many miles.
He has led them to
a win while scoring 40
points and shooting 65
percent. He has led them
to a win while making one
basket and not taking a
shot in the first half.
He led them to three
consecutive wins with
double-digit assists in
each game. There have
been 18 games in which
he did not miss a free
throw. And, oh yeah, just
for grins, Wednesday
night in New Orleans, he
scored 13 of the team’s
final 16 points.
It turns out, Jerry Buss
didn’t unravel anything.
He cemented it. He gave
the franchise to a kid who
has grown into a man
who is carrying it brilliantly in his memory, a
living last will and testament, an amazing grace.

KANSAS CITY, MO. — The
new group in charge of the
Kansas City Chiefs is going right to work, making
bold moves to turn around
a franchise that went 2-14
last season.
They traded for a
new quarterback in Alex
Smith.
They
locked
up two of their own in
wide receiver Dwayne
Bowe and punter Dustin
Colquitt. They franchised
left tackle Branden Albert
and raised some eyebrows
by releasing players once
thought to be major freeagent signings.
In doing so, new general manager John Dorsey
and coach Andy Reid have
put their fingerprints on
a franchise that has had
one winning season in the
last six, hasn’t won a playoff game since 1993, and
hasn’t been to the Super
Bowl since winning it under Hank Stram in January
1970.
They’ve also changed
the culture of a franchise
in a rut.
“All along, I think from
an organizational objective, we said we were going to create a plan, develop a plan, and these
just happen to be the first
details of the plan,” said
Dorsey, a longtime Packers executive hired in January to replace the fired
Scott Pioli.
“We have some talented players on this roster,”
Dorsey told The Associated Press this week. “We’ve
been able to retain them,
and it made sense from an
organizational standpoint.
This was the way we felt
it made sense to move forward to the next phase of
the plan.”
That phase begins in
earnest Tuesday with the
start of the new league
year.
The Chiefs will finally

Charlie Riedel/AP File Photo

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS GENERAL MANAGER JOHN DORSEY, left, poses with head coach
Andy Reid during a news conference announcing Dorsey’s hiring Jan. 14 in Kansas
City, Mo.
be able to announce their
trade with San Francisco
for Smith, whom Dorsey
and Reid undoubtedly
believe can shore up the
quarterback
position.
They will also dive headlong into free agency,
where they’ll attempt to
fill several areas of need,
and then finish their
preparations for the April
draft, where they have the
No. 1 overall pick for the
first time.
There’s also a decision
to be made about quarterback Matt Cassel, who
is almost certain to be released with Smith coming
on board, and perhaps a
couple other veterans on
the roster.
It’s a busy time for Dorsey and Reid in the offices
at One Arrowhead Drive,
but the gregarious Dorsey
laughs about the flurry of
moves and points out, “It’s
always a busy time.”
“I mean, part of this
movement was from a
philosophical belief that

has been ingrained in me,”
said Dorsey, who learned
his trade under Packers
executives Mike Holmgren and Ted Thompson.
“Winning
organizations do moves like this,
and what that does is it
makes players realize that
these guys are true to their
word,” Dorsey said. “If we
play and do what we’re
supposed to do, at the end
of the day, they’re going to
give us what our just due
is.”
In some ways, that
viewpoint also was held
by Pioli, his predecessor.
In the past few years,
the Chiefs have reached
long-term deals with linebackers Tamba Hali and
Derrick Johnson, running
back Jamaal Charles, safety Eric Berry and cornerback Brandon Flowers.
But the speed and conviction with which Dorsey
and Reid retained Bowe,
who signed a five-year,
$56 million contract, and

Colquitt, whose five-year,
$18.75 million deal makes
him the NFL’s best-paid
punter, sent a message
that the Chiefs intend to
be serious players in the
market.
“I’m very blessed to be
a member of the Kansas
City Chiefs,” said Bowe,
who at times had clashed
with the Chiefs’ previous regime. “I’m looking
forward to working with
John and coach Reid in
the near future, (and) I’m
excited to continue my career with the Chiefs.”
The signing of Bowe
and Colquitt allowed the
Chiefs to use the franchise
tag on Albert, one of the
league’s premier offensive
tackles. He’ll make $9.83
million if he plays under
the tag this season, though
Dorsey said negotiations
on a long-term deal are
ongoing.
How did Kansas City
pay for all these moves?
It freed up some money by releasing wide re-

ceiver Steve Breaston
and starting right tackle
Eric Winston, and then
restructured the contract
of defensive end Tyson
Jackson, who essentially
agreed to a pay cut from
$14.72 million to a base
salary of $4.2 million this
season.
“Every
organization
would like to have a degree of flexibility,” Dorsey
said. “Part of the thinking,
the process, is to have the
ability to give us options,
so we can go into these
different phases when the
new league year starts ...
and have the flexibility to
do different things.”
The overhaul of the
Chiefs has certainly captured attention around the
league, and raised questions, too: How did they
do all that so quickly? And
what are they going to do
next?
“Obviously, it was very
important for them to
start off quickly,” said former Chiefs coach Herm
Edwards, now an NFL
analyst for ESPN. “John’s
a good football man, and
he worked with Andy in
Green Bay, so they were
able to get on the same
page pretty fast.”
The maneuvering has
caused quite a stir in Kansas City, where most years,
fans have turned their attention to March Madness
or the Kansas City Royals,
with the Chiefs merely an
afterthought.
Shortly after Reid was
hired, he arrived on a private plane at the city’s
downtown airport, and
helicopters from local
TV stations tracked him
driving to Arrowhead Stadium. Hundreds of reporters converged for introductory news conferences
for him and Dorsey, and
talk of the Chiefs — what
they might do in the draft,
or in free agency — has
dominated sports talk radio.

Royals
hammer
Giants
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. (AP)
— Johnny Giavotella and
Brett Hayes each drove in
four runs, Yordano Ventura pitched three hitless
innings, and the Kansas
City Royals beat the San
Francisco Giants, 13-2, Saturday.
Billy Butler and David
Lough each added three
hits. The Royals finished
with 20 hits, including
nine in 12⁄3 innings against
Giants starter Yusmeiro
Petit.
Brandon Belt hit his
fourth homer for the Giants.
Ventura, considered the
Royals’ top pitching prospect, made his first start of
the spring and fourth appearance overall. He got
this chance when Wade
Davis was scratched with
shoulder soreness, and extended his hitless streak to
five innings.

Off to see
the wizard?
Check out
our review of
‘Oz the Great
and Powerful.’
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item: Flaming
cheese at the
Mad Greek.
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Sunday, March 10, 2013

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FROM LEFT, FRENCH HORN PLAYERS STEPHEN MEILLER AND MURIEL HAGUE, along with members of the Kansas University Wind Ensemble,
rehearse “In the Shadow of No Towers,” an original symphony by composer Mohammed Fairouz reflecting the 9/11 attacks and their emotional
and political aftermath, on Feb. 20 in Murphy Hall. The Wind Ensemble will be premiering the piece March 26 at Carnegie Hall in New York.

J

ust write something
fast, flashy. Don’t get
deep. We’ll pay you a
lot of money. Composer
Mohammed Fairouz
says he turns down many
such requests.
“In the Shadow of No Towers” is nothing like those.
It’s not an everyday selection for the Kansas University Wind Ensemble, either.
In perhaps the biggest event
KU’s School of Music has
embarked on, the 69-member
ensemble will be the first ever
to play Fairouz’s large-scale
work, a symphony reflecting
the 9/11 attacks and their emotional and political aftermath.
KU students will premiere the
commission this month on one

of the world’s most famous
stages: Carnegie Hall in New
York City.
Not only is it rare for a
university group to play at
Carnegie Hall, but it’s also
exceptional for a composer
of Fairouz’s profile to commission music for them.
Fairouz, a New York City
resident not yet 30 himself,
is an Arab-American composer known for scores with
geopolitical and philosophical themes. He’s only going
to live once, he says, so he
rarely takes on projects that
aren’t big. He wants to spend
his time writing multidimensional pieces that “matter.”
Please see ENSEMBLE, page 3C

IF YOU GO
Kansas University Wind Ensemble will premiere “In the Shadow
of No Towers” at 8 p.m. (Eastern
time) March 26 at Carnegie Hall
in New York City. Tickets can be
purchased online at carnegiehall.
org or by calling 212-247-7800.

11 MONDAY

Concert: Caspian at
the Jackpot Saloon
The instrumental alt-rock
band from Massachusetts
will play at the Jackpot, 943
Massachusetts St., along
with bands Sundiver and
Native.
The show starts at 9
p.m., and costs $7 for 18+
and $5 for 21+.

The ensemble will perform an
encore concert at 7:30 p.m. April
2 at the Lied Center, 1600 Stewart
Ave.
Admission is free, but ticket
reservations are required and can
be made by calling 864-2787.

casting
their

shadow
By Sara Shepherd

12 TUESDAY

Talk: NPR White
House correspondent
at the Dole Institute of
Politics
Scott Horsley will speak
at 7:30 p.m. at the Dole
Institute of Politics on KU’s
West Campus as part of
events celebrating Kansas
Public Radio’s 60th anniversary.

Horsley, NPR’s White
House correspondent, will
give his take on the 2012
presidential campaign. It’s
free.

sas University associate
professor of ecology and
evolutionary biology, will
present “Global Shift —
a Challenging Twist on
Climate Change” and talk
about climate change science over some brews. It
starts at 7:30 p.m. at the
restaurant, 636 Massachusetts St.
It’s free to attend. The
beer, unfortunately, is not.

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Ozâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; not great, but visuals are powerful

T

he new Disney
movie â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oz the
Great and Powerfulâ&#x20AC;? may be based
on the works of
L. Frank Baum, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an
entirely new adventure
scripted specifically for
the big screen.

SCENE
STEALERS

ERIC
MELIN

AP Photo/Disney Enterprises

eric@scene-stealers.com
Written by Hollywood
schlockster Mitchell Kapner and touched up considerably by playwright
David Lindsay-Abaire, the
story is pretty standard
stuff about a selfish man
who learns to care about
other people. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the
energetic, loopy direction of Sam Raimi and the
old-fashioned movie-star
charm of Michelle Williams and Rachel Weisz
that make this â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ozâ&#x20AC;? not
quite great and sometimes powerful.
Back in the 1980s, Raimi
burst on the B-movie
scene with the R-rated
horror movie â&#x20AC;&#x153;Evil Deadâ&#x20AC;?

JAMES FRANCO, AS OZ, LEFT, AND THE CHARACTER FINLEY, VOICED BY ZACH BRAFF, are shown in a scene from â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oz
the Great and Powerful,â&#x20AC;? now playing everywhere.
and its superior sequel
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Evil Dead 2,â&#x20AC;? in which
he pioneered low-budget
creativity by strapping
cameras to homemade
rigs that would travel
over bumpy terrain and
running the film at high
speeds, among other
things. He took his love
for B-movies to the
mainstream with the first
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Spider-Manâ&#x20AC;? trilogy,
and his camera movement was still a major
attraction, giving us a
birdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s-eye view of Spidey
as he swings all over New
York.
With those films, Raimi
put the audience in the
middle of the action,

OFF THE BEATEN PLATE

something he does many
times during the familyfriendly, PG-rated â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oz
the Great and Powerful.â&#x20AC;? Usually I decry the
gimmicky use of 3-D in a
movie, but in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oz,â&#x20AC;? Raimi
has a way of celebrating
3-Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cheap thrills with
child-like glee. As Kansas
huckster Oscar Diggs
(James Franco) goes over
a waterfall, the audience
is right there with him,
feeling our stomachs
drop. When shards of
houses pierce the walls of
his hot-air balloon in the
middle of a tornado, our
hands clutch the armrests.
In addition to the
roller-coaster-ride feeling,

Raimi instills a real sense
of wonder and awe with
his version of the Land of
Oz, a multi-colored digital
playground with some
of the best visual effects
youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re likely to see all
year. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an impressive amount of 3-D depth
to the landscapes and creative use of the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dual
aspect ratio in tandem
with stereoscopic vision.
Last week I celebrated the
work of the artists who
created the detailed CGI
giants from the otherwise
mundane â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jack the Giant
Slayer,â&#x20AC;? but the fully realized porcelain girl from
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ozâ&#x20AC;? is a whole different
kind of amazing. Wow.

On the flip side of the
coin, there are the performances of Franco and
Mila Kunis. Since â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ozâ&#x20AC;? is
functioning on a mythical
fairy-tale level, there is a
certain amount of otherworldliness and bigness
that actors must bring
to their roles to fit in
with the larger-than-life
setting. Franco basically
plays James Franco, 21st
century actor and movie
star, rather than actually
embodying the character
of Diggs. He grows into
the part a little by the
end, but his modern, laidback take on the material is at odds with the
earnest tone of the film.

By Sara Shepherd

The Flaming Cheese, or Saganaki, appetizer at the Mad Greek, 907 Massachusetts St.

FLAMING CHEESE
If any food merits being
served with a big â&#x20AC;&#x153;opa!â&#x20AC;?
itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a dish that comes on
fire. The Flaming Cheese,
or Saganaki, appetizer at
Mad Greek is brought to
the table on a tray, doused
with brandy and set
ablaze.
After the flames die
down, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s placed on the
table for your enjoyment
(safety first!).
The square of aged
Greek Kaseri cheese,
which comes with pita
wedges on the side, is
breaded and pan-fried
until itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crispy and golden.
The flaming part provides

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â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Off The Beaten Plate
highlights some of the more
exotic, oddly named or inventively concocted (for better or
worse) dishes from local menus.
Know of an offbeat menu item
we should check out? Email
food and features reporter Sara
Shepherd at sshepherd@ljworld.
com. Tweet her at
Twitter.com/KCSSara.

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a good tableside show and
last-minute super-heating
to ensure the cheese
stays melty long enough
for you and a friend to polish it off.
Where to get it: Mad
Greek, 907 Massachusetts St.
What youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll pay: $7.59
Try it with: Some
Greek wine. Mad Greek
has two whites and a red
available by the glass or
bottle.
Also on the menu:
dolmas (stuffed grape
leaves), gyros sandwiches
or dinners, moussaka, leg
of lamb, pastas and a full

Kunis is perfectly cast as
a doe-eyed innocent with
perfect skin, but once
the role requires her to
stretch, she really isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t up
to the task.
Williams, however,
plays the witch Glinda as
if the role were written
for her. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all sincerity
and motherly instincts,
wrapping those around
her in a warm glow. And
yes, this is accomplished
by Williams herself, all
without the help of visual
effects, Weisz is also playing an archetype, but she
adds a surprising amount
of depth to her underwritten role as one of the
scriptâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s many witches.
Overall, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oz the Great
and Powerfulâ&#x20AC;? has the
â&#x20AC;&#x153;wowâ&#x20AC;? factor that big
Hollywood event movies
demand. Raimi was the
right person to elevate
some pretty standard
material, though Franco
and Kunis may not have
been the right people
for the job. Although
the film drags a little in
its third quarter, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a
harmless and fun tribute
to the 1939 classic â&#x20AC;&#x153;The
Wizard of Oz,â&#x20AC;? which
like this one, mixed
some darkness into its
magical potion.
Note: The free screening
of Dave Grohlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s documentary â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sound Cityâ&#x20AC;? at
Liberty Hall mentioned in
last weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Scene Stealers column was moved to
this Monday because of a
snowstorm.

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KC CONNECTION

St. Paddyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day
on parade

T

hose of us in
the workforce
donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really get
to experience
Spring Break
with the same hedonistic
fervor as college students,
but the combination of
St. Patrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day and the
Big 12 basketball tournament gives even the most
buttoned-down visitor to
Kansas City a great excuse to kick back and do a
little day drinking.

Richard Gwin/Journal-World Photo

COMPOSER MOHAMMED FAIROUZ, CENTER, WORKS WITH THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY WIND ENSEMBLE on Feb. 20
on a piece he composed called â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the Shadow of No Towers,â&#x20AC;? about 9/11, that the musicians will be performing March 26 in Carnegie Hall.

Ensemble

need to have opportuniPhilip Kaul, tenor saxophone player and fresh- ties to show that on the
biggest stage,â&#x20AC;? Kaul says.
man from De Soto.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s obviously a great
The level of expresCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1C
opportunity to grow as a
sion in the score is
Fairouz says most
musician and a teacher.â&#x20AC;?
designed to match the
composers aim to
Muriel Hague, a
enormity of the event
commission works for
French horn player and
the music depicts, he
professional musical
junior from Overland
says. Listeners will
groups, which he does
Park, says the Carnegie
hear sadness, heroism
regularly. In this case,
Hall experience enables
and even direct referhowever, he suggested
the ensemble to take its
ences to each deadly
the nationally recogplay to the next level.
plane crash.
nized KU ensemble.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have the notes,
â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is not a stanâ&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m in this to make
we have the rhythms,
dard-issue band piece,â&#x20AC;?
a difference,â&#x20AC;? Fairouz
and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re getting the
adds Pete Walker,
says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can never un- English horn player
musical nuances,â&#x20AC;? she
derestimate the power
says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We know weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve
and second-year docof putting your work
toral student from Terre reached really high stanin the hands of young
dards, and now we get
Haute, Ind.
people.â&#x20AC;?
to push it even more.â&#x20AC;?
Typically when the
wind ensemble tackles
Making it their own
â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Serious-mindedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;
a new piece, the group
During a recent
commission
listens to a recording
Reach Out Kansas Inc.
rehearsal in Murphy
of someone else playand the Overland Park
Hall, Fairouz pushes
ing it. Because â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the
musicians to dig deeper,
to play past ambiguity.
More nervous energy,
You are going to the most prestigious stage
he urges, to convey the
discomfort beneath the
in the United States. The eyes of the world
heroic score.
are on that stage.â&#x20AC;?
More often than not,
KU director of bands
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Composer Mohammed Fairouz
Paul Popiel says, the
wind ensemble plays
classical music by
law firm Smithyman and
composers who are long Shadow of No Towersâ&#x20AC;?
Zakoura commissioned
deceased.
has never been played
â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the Shadow of No
Collaborating with
outside Fairouzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head,
Towersâ&#x20AC;? and are sponthe composer of â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not an option.
soring the wind ensemShadow of No Towersâ&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re approaching
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s made multiple
it as a blank slate,â&#x20AC;? Kaul bleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trip to Carnegie
Hall to perform it.
visits to Kansas for
says.
Through Reach Out
rehearsal â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is a unique
Professional
Kansas, James Zakoura
luxury. But Popiel
experience
has commissioned six
reminds student musiFor a student, the op- works by Fairouz prior
cians that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean
portunity to collaborate to â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the Shadow of No
theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re playing â&#x20AC;&#x153;hisâ&#x20AC;?
with a noted composer
Towers,â&#x20AC;? an idea Fairouz
music.
on a new piece is a great had wanted to create and
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ours now, he
experience, says Eric
pitched to Zakoura.
gave it to us,â&#x20AC;? Popiel
The earlier works presays before the next run- Killen, a bassoonist and
senior from Lawrence.
miered here in Kansas,
through. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need to
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Having the composer Zakoura says, but it was
grab it, and own it.â&#x20AC;?
here, we really know
fitting to premiere â&#x20AC;&#x153;In
Most of the wind ensembleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s musicians were exactly what he meant,â&#x20AC;? the Shadow of No TowKillen says.
ersâ&#x20AC;? in New York, and
in elementary school
In addition to preon a big stage.
when the planes hit the
miering new music, stuPlus, Zakoura says, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
Twin Towers in New
dents say performing at a chance for the wind
York City. But theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve
Carnegie Hall will boost ensemble to act as an
grown up in a post-9/11
their careers, whether as ambassador for the arts
world and appreciate
professional musicians
in Kansas, showcasing
the importance of the
or teachers.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;serious-minded, imporevent inspiring the muâ&#x20AC;&#x153;To be the best musi- tant work.â&#x20AC;?
sical score.
cian you can be, you
Zakoura says he
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s massive,â&#x20AC;? says

expects the ensemble
to continue perform the
piece live, and they already have an album deal
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the ensemble is under
contract to record â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the
Shadow of No Towersâ&#x20AC;?
for Naxos, the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
largest classical music
label, in March, with the
album release scheduled
for November.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I look at this as maybe the best model for
moving the arts forward,
a public-private partnership,â&#x20AC;? Zakoura says of
his organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s commissions.

Time flies
Popiel says he was
initially apprehensive
about the size of the
score, an â&#x20AC;&#x153;emotionally
wrenchingâ&#x20AC;? piece that
took Fairouz more than
nine months to create.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;This canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have legs,â&#x20AC;?
Popiel thought. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just
donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do this.â&#x20AC;?
Fairouz delivered the
score in March of last
year. And now that the
ensemble is fine-tuning,
it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel long at all,
Popiel says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You lose
yourself.â&#x20AC;?
Fairouz says he hopes
each of his previous commissions through Reach
Out Kansas Inc. has put a
dent in the preconceived
notion that this part of
the country doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t foster
groundbreaking work in
the arts.
In rehearsal with
the wind ensemble, at
the time less than five
weeks before the debut
of â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the Shadow of
No Towers,â&#x20AC;? he tells
students theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re playing
â&#x20AC;&#x153;like godsâ&#x20AC;? and will only
get better.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;You are going to the
most prestigious stage
in the United States,â&#x20AC;?
Fairouz says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The eyes
of the world are on that
stage.â&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Features reporter Sara Shepherd
can be reached at sshepherd@ljworld.
com and 832-7187. Follow her on
Twitter at Twitter.com/KCSSara.

Holiday: St. Patrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
Day events
If imbibing until youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re
green is less a priority
than showing the family a
good time, take advantage
of the holiday falling on a
Sunday to see the 41st annual Kansas City St. Patrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day Parade, a bona
fide big city event where
the streets overflow with
people, parade floats and
lots of free candy.
The parade starts at
Broadway and Linwood
(33rd) Streets in Midtown
Kansas City and winds its
way to Westport, which
by that point in the day
will have already reached
a fever pitch.
This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parade
theme is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gathering of
the Clans,â&#x20AC;? and whether
youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got any Irish blood
or not, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll feel welcome amid the diverse
group of people the event
brings out each year.
Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been several
times, and the ridiculous
costumes, men on stilts,
boisterous floats and
drum lines (especially the
Marching Cobras) never
disappoint.
For a full list of parking
locations, parade floats
and vendors, visit kcirishparade.com.
If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re planning to
attend Lawrenceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parade
instead, you can still catch
a parade in Kansas City
the day before. The Snake
Saturday parade in North
Kansas City, now in its
30th year, is a slightly more
family-friendly affair that
includes attractions like
pony rides, a car show
and an Irish festival. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Irish
Roots and Cowboy Bootsâ&#x20AC;?
is this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s theme, and
the event lasts from 10 a.m.
to 3 p.m. Visit snakesaturday.com for more details.
Parades aside, St. Patrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day in Kansas City is
basically a party anywhere
you choose to find it. As
the parade destination
and the regionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oldest bar
district, Westport is the
natural choice to celebrate.
Kellyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Westport Inn
(500 Westport Road),
which opens Sunday at 10
a.m., and nearby Harlingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
Upstairs (3941 Main) are
the traditional hotspots.
My recommendation
is the classier Californos
(4124 Pennsylvania, californos.com), where visitors
can enjoy a brunch buffet
of corned beef, cabbage
and cake ($14 for adults, $7
for kids under 12). Californos will be featuring live

music all day on the patio,
with the wonderful, rabblerousing KC Bear Fighters
kicking things off at 11:30
a.m. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a $3 cover for
bands.
Final word of advice on
St. Patrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day: Things
can get fairly raucous,
so be sure to know your
limits, designate a sober
driver and look out for
each other. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d recommend
getting started early and
heading home shortly after
the parade, as green beer
tends to operate under a
law of diminishing returns
after a certain pint.

Sports: Big 12
tournament
As Jayhawk hoops fans
are surely aware, this week
is the 2013 Big 12 Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
Basketball Tournament,
held at the Sprint Center
and encompassing most of
downtown Kansas City.
Tickets are a pretty
penny, ranging from $195
to $330 (not including
fees) for all-session tickets. But as teams drop out,
there will be chances to
buy tickets on the street,
so bring cash and a willingness to haggle. If you
go, look for the Jayhawks
to take the court wearing their new, um, more
colorful camo uniforms.
Even if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t plan on
entering the Sprint Center,
the big-game atmosphere
is present throughout the
Power & Light District,
with charter buses clogging the streets, hot dog
vendors on every block,
and fans of all 10 teams
out in full force. The giant
screen in the KC Live!
courtyard (the P&L district
epicenter) broadcasts
every game, providing a
communal watch party the
length of a city block. You
must be 21 or over to enter.
The whole family can
take part in the Big 12
Phillips 66 Street Festival,
which includes outdoor
basketball games, shooting contests, a car display,
and other activities all
along Grand Boulevard
outside the Sprint Center.
Visit big12sports.com
for more info on the
Street Festival and the
tournament itself.
Sports: Sporting KC
If all that isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough
excitement, Saturday is
the home opener for the
cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s soccer superheroes,
Sporting KC, who take on
rivals the Chicago Fire at 2
p.m. at Sporting Park (near
the Kansas Speedway). For
ticket information, visit
sportingkc.com/tickets.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Lucas Wetzel grew up in
Westwood, graduated from KU
in 2004, and has since worked
as a freelance writer, editor
and language trainer in Leipzig,
Germany, and Kansas City, Mo.
Know of an upcoming event in
Kansas City youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to see
featured in Kansas City Connection? Email us about it at
kcconnection@ljworld.com.

AUTHOR MOHSIN HAMID, pictured during an interview April 21, 2007, in New York,
has just come out with his third novel, “How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia.”
ing Asia” is pure Hamid.
After spending part of
his childhood in California, the author studied at
Princeton and Harvard
and worked in finance in
New York and London
before returning to live
in Lahore, Pakistan. He seems to
know the worst
and best of both
cultures,
and
his
storytelling style is both
timeless
and
contemporary,
a postmodern
Scheherazade.
The
entire
book is addressed to a
“you” whom we meet
“huddled, shivering, on
the packed earth under
your mother’s cot one
cold, dewy morning. ...
The whites of your eye are
yellow, a consequence of
spiking bilirubin levels in
your blood. The virus afflicting you is called hepatitis E. Its typical mode of
transmission is fecal-oral.
Yum. It kills only about
one in 50, so you’re likely
to recover. But right now
you feel like you’re going
to die.”
The voice shifts flu-

ently between close-up
tracking of this character
and his friend “the pretty
girl” and a grander philosophical meditation. In
each chapter, the notion
of self-help and the project of reading and writing
are re-evaluated. “It’s in
being read that a book becomes a book, and in each
of a million different readings becomes one of a million different books, just
as an egg becomes one of
potentially a million different people when it’s approached by a hard-swimming and frisky school of
sperm.”
The sharp-eyed storyteller follows our young
friend as he struggles
through his childhood
and adolescence, taking
in what education there
is to be had, working his
way up from bicycle delivery of pirated DVDs
to the selling of expired
canned goods to his first
entrepreneurial venture:
the bottling of lightly
sterilized water posing as
eau minerale. This business — thriving due to
the contaminated water
system that caused his
hepatitis — is the rickety
car in which he ascends

the roller coaster track of
the South Asian economy. Meanwhile, the pretty girl is on her own journey, seen on billboards
and in tabloids, then on
television hosting a cooking show. Their paths
crisscross and, ultimately, converge.
This novel is smart
about many things, including medicine and the
processes of death, but is
smartest of all about literature itself. “We are all
refugees from our childhoods,” the narrator informs us. “And so we
turn, among other things,
to stories. ... Writers and
readers seek a solution
to the problem that time
passes, that those who
have gone are gone and
those who will go, which
is to say every one of us,
will go. For there was a
moment when anything is
possible. And there will be
a moment when nothing is
possible. But in between,
we can create.”
According to Hamid,
a novel is co-created by
the writer and the reader.
Three novels in, I really
enjoy working with him
and spending time in his
world.

Bob Knight turns advice guru in ‘Negative Thinking’
Knight also punctures statements by athletes that would
have you believe God is on
their side.

By Jim Higgins
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Brenden Gardner,
student,
Lawrence
“‘The Harbinger’ (by
Jonathan Cahn). It
was a must-read for all
Americans. I loved it.”

Write poetry?
Our Poet’s Showcase
features work by
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your poetry via email
with a subject line of
Poet’s Showcase to
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contact information
must be included.

Here are the best-sellers
for the week that ended
March 2, compiled from
data from independent and
chain bookstores, book
wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.

Fiction

Newsday

What do you get when
you cross “How to Succeed in Business Without
Really Trying,” the cynical musical comedy, with
“Behind the Beautiful Forevers,” the award-winning
portrait of life among India’s most abject?
I can think of only one
person who would even
Dick Rector,
dream up such a hybrid:
glass blower,
the brilliant Pakistani
Lawrence
writer Mohsin Hamid.
“‘The Poisonwood Bible’
“How to Get Filthy Rich
(by Barbara Kingsolver). in Rising Asia” is Hamid’s
It’s intriguing.”
third novel, following the
acclaimed “Moth Smoke”
and “The Reluctant Fundamentalist,” the latter
an eye-opening and spellbinding 9/11 tale shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
The film by Mira Nair
comes out in April.
In his latest, Hamid focuses on a wretched, diseased, yet ambitious child
of the Indian subcontinent, picking him up by
the scruff of his neck and
advising him in the brisk,
Jim Bresnaham,
imperious tones of a selfretired,
help manual on how to
Lawrence
improve his lot.
“‘The Bird’ (by Colin Tudge). The
invisible
It’s very interesting. It’s
mentor follows
about the birds of the world, this
unnamed
the different species and
boy up the ladtheir behavior.”
der of success
with new admonishments for
each rung: “Learn
From a Master,”
“Don’t Fall in
Love,” “Be Prepared to Use Violence,” “Befriend
a Bureaucrat” and “Dance
With Debt” are some of
the chapter titles. Though
the ending does contain
one sweet surprise, it is
no spoiler to reveal that
“How to Get Filthy Rich
Katie Zeh,
in Rising Asia” does not
student,
have the joyous finale of
Springfield, Mo.
the musical comedy it re“‘The Picture of Dorian
sembles.
Gray’ (by Oscar Wilde). It’s
In its cleverness, its
a classic.”
slightly cruel satire and
its complex understanding of both Western and
Eastern paradigms, “How
to Get Filthy Rich in Ris-

BEST-SELLERS

Behind his choleric countenance,
chair-hurling antics and disturbing
incidents of laying hands on people
in anger, Bob Knight clearly knows
something about coaching college
basketball. He won more than 900
games at Army, Indiana and Texas
Tech, often defeating opponents
with superior athletic talent.
In “The Power of Negative
Thinking,” Knight and co-author
Bob Hammel outline the coach’s approach to preparation and strategy,
which they cast, with both humor
and a touch of hyperbole, as the opposite of Norman Vincent Peale’s.
It’s a book about the virtues of
knowing one’s weaknesses and
working hard to counteract or minimize them, of not merely giving lip
service to avoiding overconfidence,
of caution, patience and self-scouting.
Knight insists he’s not a strict
negativist or a person with a sour
outlook. “I’m saying that being alert
to the possible negatives in any situation is the very best way to bring
about positive results.”
“Victory favors the team making
the fewest mistakes,” Knight posted
in his locker rooms, and his book
suggests he followed that game plan
assiduously.
“The coach who recognizes the
possibility — maybe even in specific cases the probability — of losing is going to work a lot harder,”
Knight writes.
His favorite example of that situation isn’t from a basketball court,
but from the ballot box. Incumbent
Harry Truman was the acknowledged underdog against Thomas
Dewey in the 1948 presidential election, which also included two thirdparty candidates. While the overconfident Dewey relaxed, playing it
safe to avoid blowing the election,
Truman, filled with urgency about
his possible defeat, hammered away

AP File Photo

THEN-INDIANA COACH BOB KNIGHT,
left, jokes with then-Kansas University
coach Roy Williams before the NCAA
Midwest Regional Championship game
March 27, 1993, in St. Louis. Knight
is the co-author of “The Power of
Negative Thinking.”
at his opponent. Despite that famous incorrect Chicago Tribune
headline, Truman defeated the favorite.
Knight applies his skeptical approach to sports-world clichés as
well, with refreshing results. “Somebody will win, somebody will lose,
but don’t ever tell me the difference
every time is that the winner wanted to win more than the loser did,”
he writes. Duke didn’t beat Butler
in the NCAA championship game
because Duke’s players wanted victory a little more. “Duke that night
did just a little bit more. Or, in my
terms, they made fewer mistakes

and played within their disciplined
training to take home the championship.”
The former Army coach cites the
legendary Chinese strategist Sun
Tzu’s statement that “A military operation involves deception” as part
of his game preparation:
“In sports, we improve almost
every offensive move we make by
setting it up with a false move first,
a fake, or a reverse. As coaches, as
leaders, we achieve that deception by saying over and over again
on the practice floor, No, we can’t
make that kind of a move without a
fake first.”
Wisconsin readers may groan
that Knight gives former St. Louis
Cardinals manager Tony LaRussa
props here. But they’ll enjoy several shoutouts to Vince Lombardi
and be pleased to read that Knight
tapped Green Bay Packers great
Willie Davis to give a short, blunt
pep talk to his U.S. Olympic hoops
team in 1984.
He also punctures statements by
athletes that would have you believe God is on their side. “Bringing
God into expectations, particularly
into competition where one person’s victory is another person’s defeat, seems to me to be crossing a
do-unto-others line. ... I look around
and see tragic things happening every day in the world and think He
has . . . better things to do than dabble in sports and play favorites.”
“I did have a player who made the
sign of the cross before every free
throw,” Knight writes. “I told him to
quit it — not because the act offended me; he was a lousy shooter and I
told him he was giving the church a
bad name.”

BRIEFLY
Novels nominated
for fiction prize
NEW YORK — Thomas
Mallon’s novel about the
scandal that brought down
Richard Nixon is a finalist
for the PEN/Faulkner award
for fiction.
Published by Random
House Inc., Mallon’s “Watergate” was among five
nominees for the $15,000
award. Three other books
announced Wednesday
were published by smaller
presses.
Two finalists were
released by Coffee House
Press: Laird Hunt’s “Kind
One” and T. Geronimo’s
“Hold It ‘Til It Hurts.” The
other nominees were Amelia Gray’s “Threats,” from
Farrar, Straus & Giroux;
and Benjamin Alire Saenz’s
story collection “Everything
Begins & Ends,” published
by Cinco Puntos Press.

POET’S
SHOWCASE

Ruby Slippers
improbable.com says
that the state
of Kansas is flatter than
a pancake.
An in-between space to
underrate,
it carries an image hard
to shake.
So pass on through, if
you desire,
roads that come in,
surely go out.
As for me, I have all I
require.
For I would be sorely
sad without
this place where kin
and creatures thrive
in open vistas and lustrous sky,
where common people
work and strive,
where over rainbows
bluebirds fly.
In this land of loam and
brome
is where you’ll find me,
at home.
— Marilyn Page, Lecompton

PUZZLES

L AWRENCE J OURNAL -W ORLD

Sunday, March 10, 2013

| 5C

THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
SEVEN BLURBS FOR SEVEN
BIOGRAPHIES
By Samuel A. Donaldson /
Edited by Will Shortz
ACROSS
1 Insect pupa sold as fish food
7 Doesn’t get the memo, maybe
15 Make do
19 Show instability
20 Offering with potato chips
21 Amount owed by an insurance
policy holder
22 “It’s worth it just for Ms.
Behar’s famous lasagna recipe”
24 Crop up
25 Cleverness
26 TV’s Peter and literature’s Ben
27 Walk through
28 Mathematician Paul
29 Bolivian bears
31 Born as
32 British actress Diana
33 “Start already!”
35 “An insightful look at how playing Miss Brooks took its toll on Ms.
Arden”
39 Spanish beaches
41 Cole Porter title woman
42 Slickers and galoshes
43 Conger catcher
44 Captain Hook’s alma mater
46 Engine attachment
47 Crumbs
48 “You don’t have to be a
gardener to dig this book about
Kerouac’s tools”
52 Long time follower?
53 Sight at a supermarket or golf
course
54 Pack number
55 Indisposed
56 Relief
57 Anesthesiologists’ locales, for
short
58 “Finally, we learn how one
Jonas brother defined an entire
generation”

NEW YORK — It appears
the Force is still strong
with Harrison Ford, Mark
Hamill and Carrie Fisher.
In an interview posted
online Thursday, George
Lucas said the trio from
the original “Star Wars”
trilogy will reprise their
iconic roles of Han Solo,
Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia in the new “Star
Wars” film.
Lucas told Bloomberg
Businessweek that all
three were signed for the
new “Episode VII” film
in advance of Lucasfilm’s
$4 billion purchase by Disney.
“We had already signed
Mark and Carrie and Harrison — or were pretty
much in the final stages of
negotiation,” Lucas said.
He added: “Maybe I’m
not supposed to say that.
I think they want to announce that with some big
whoop-de-do.”
In an interview posted
Wednesday with Florida’s
Palm Beach Illustrated,

Fisher said that she’ll be
coming back as Princess
Leia.
Disney’s
Lucasfilm
was coy in response. In
a statement, a spokesperson for the company
said, “George couldn’t say
whether they were signed
or not and neither can we.
As Yoda said, ‘Always in
motion is the future.’ Stay
tuned.”
The Walt Disney Co.
is producing a new “Star
Wars” trilogy to take place
after Lucas’ original three
space epics. J.J. Abrams
is directing the first film.
The 70-year-old Ford, the
61-year-old Hamill and
the 56-year-old Fisher are
expected to play smaller,
supporting roles.

The Goldenberg Duo will
present a free recital at noon
Friday in the Central Court at
the Spencer Museum of Art,
1301 Mississippi St.
The brother-sister duo
features Susan, a violinist with the Kansas City
Symphony, and William, a
distinguished professor of
piano at Northern Illinois
University. They plan to
perform works by Edvard
Grieg and Beethoven as
well as Chinese folk songs
and klezmer music.
The backdrop for their
performance will be “An
Errant Line: Ann Hamilton/
Cynthia Schira,” a new art
installation combining textiles and digital art.

Pi Day-themed
events planned
Expect a celebration of
math, science, pastry and
nerd pride at the Alferd
Packer Memorial String
Band’s annual Pi Day variety
show, set for 7 p.m. Thursday
at the Lawrence Arts Center,
940 New Hampshire St.
The fast-paced show
will feature music, dance,
standup comedy, film and
feats, including a pi recitation contest where the
highest number of memorized pi digits wins. Also
planned is a pie-baking
contest, with pies judged
in flavor and creativity —
though a pie that’s actually
irrational and infinite would
trump other categories.
Admission is $10 for
adults, or $5 for students and
seniors. Advance tickets are
available through the Arts
Center box office, 843-2787.

Material for trash
bin exhibit sought
The Percolator Artspace is
looking for community members with photos, objects and
experiences to share from
the Social Service League’s
alleyway trash bin.
The bin at 905 Rhode
Island St. has evolved into
a circular micro-economy
and a gathering place for
both the comfortable and
the down-on-their-luck. It’s
known as a prime spot to forage for interesting or useful
things — and also a haven
for leaving things someone
else might want or need.
In a project he’s calling
“Give Take Give,” Lawrence
artist David Loewenstein is
documenting the phenomenon. The Percolator, located
next door to the thrift store
at 913 Rhode Island St., is
planning a related exhibition,
book and series of events
that will kick off in April.
Submissions for the show
can be made to Loewenstein
via dloewenstein@hotmail.
com or dropped off at the
Percolator, open from noon
to 6 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, through April 21.
For more information,
visit the “Give Take Give”
blog at givetakegive.
blogspot.com.

PLACE YOUR AD ONLINE AT SUNFLOWERCLASSIFIEDS.COM OR CALL 785.832.2222 or 866.823.8220

Announcements
North Lawrence
Improvement
Association
is having a
City Commissions
Candidate Forum.
Monday, March 11, 7pm.
at Peace Mennonite
Church, 615 Lincoln,
North Lawrence.
All welcome.
Info. 785-842-7232

Lawrence childcare center hiring Office Assistant. Must have one year
teaching experience in a
licensed childcare center. $12 - $15 per hour
plus health and retirement benefits, as well as
up to four weeks of paid
holiday annually.
Send cover letter and resume to the attention of
the School Director at
kspreschool@hotmail.com

Construction

Banking

PAINTER
Varied Work Schedule
20 Hours Per Week
$8.57/hr.

Commercial Lender
If you are a successful
commercial lender who
enjoys developing and
working a plan to assist
businesses and entrepreneurs
reach
their
growth goals, this could
be the opportunity for
you. Sunflower Bank, an
aggressive
$1.8
billion
bank,
is
currently
searching for the right
Commercial Lenders in
Lawrence, KS to fill a
number of newly created
positions in our growing
organization. This is the
ideal possibility for you
if you seek the freedom
to develop new and
existing customer relationships, and also be an
important member of the
team responsible for developing products and
services that bring value
to business owners.
Imagine the satisfaction
of contributing to an institution committed to
producing
leading-edge
solutions for our customers and true growth
potential for our employees. Qualified applicants
should apply online at
sunflowerbank.com/careers
Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never worked any
place
like
Sunflower
Bank before! EOE/AA!

Project Engineer
The selected candidate
will play a key role in
supporting new capital
projects from concept to
completion. These projects will range in size
from $50,000 to $1 million
in scope with an emphasis on automated part
handling and â&#x20AC;&#x153;end of
lineâ&#x20AC;? automation.
â&#x20AC;˘ Bachelors degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering preferred.
â&#x20AC;˘ Strong project
management/organizatio
nal skills a must.
â&#x20AC;˘ Experience with process
engineering in both Injection and Thermoform
Molding preferred.
â&#x20AC;˘ Excellent verbal and
written communications
skills and ability to
travel.
Berry Plastics offers a
competitive salary and
benefits package.
Applications only accepted online at:
www.BerryPlastics.com
â&#x20AC;˘ (Click on) corporate
â&#x20AC;˘ (Click drop down link
to) employment
Background check/drug
test required.
EOE

Bishop Seabury Academy an independent college preparatory
school,
is
seeking a full-time Middle School Math teacher
for the 2013-14 school
year.
Preferred candidates will have an advanced degree in the respective subject or a degree in education and
relevant teaching experience.
Applicants should send a
resume & cover letter to
Matt Patterson @
mattpatterson@
seaburyacademy.org.
Call 785-832-1717 or visit
www.seaburyacademy.org
for more information.

14 Full-time Openings!
40 hrs a week
Weekly pay
Call Ben: 785-841-0755
Or apply in person at
1601 W. 23rd, Ste. 112
11-8 Mon-Thur
Customer Serv./General Help
20-30 individuals
WANTED NOW!!
Due to New Product Line our
Company is experiencing a
massive product demand
opening various positions in
all depts No exp. nec. Company Training provided. All
positions must be filled NOW.
$2000 monthly starting pay.
Interviewing 1st 100 callers
call today start this week.
785.856.0355
Focus is currently seeking energetic and motivated candidates for the
following positions: Production, General Labor,
Packers/Stackers.
Pay = up to $8.00/hr.
Must be able to lift up 40 lbs
Drug Screen and Background Check Required.
Apply online at
www.workatfocus.com
or call 785-228-1555.

Garden/Gift Store

Immediate opening for
full/part time employment.
Must be outgoing, plant
friendly, Team Player
with POS/sales exp.
Must be willing to
work weekends
Apply in Person:
Tues-Sat through 3/16

The Kansas Enrichment
Network is a statewide
coalition
dedicated
to
quality
out-of-school
programming
for
children and youth. The Network seeks a motivated,
highly organized person
with strong communicating
and
coaching
skills.
For complete job
description go to
http://employment.ku.edu/job
s/2197. First review of applications
begins on 3/11/13.
EOE
M/F/D/V

PROGRAM MANAGER
The Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation will be filling a
full-time Program Manager
position.
Salary
commensurate with experience. Initial review
begins 3/15/13.

Find the best candidates with

1-785-832-2222 or 1-866-823-8220

Successful financial services company in Lawrence KS is looking for
career oriented store associates. We offer better than normal retail
hours
and WE ARE
CLOSED
ON
SUNDAYS!
Applicants must possess
strong
customer
relations
skills,
computer
skills, phone skills, and
sales skills, as well as a
professional
appearance.
We also offer a comprehensive benefits package and paid vacation.
ONLY ONLINE APPLICATIONS
WILL
BE
ACCEPTED.
More details, along with
applying for this position, can be found at
www.ezmoneyjobs.com.
EZCORP is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
The
Tonganoxie
Water
Park is now hiring for
several seasonal positions:
Âˇ Pool Manager
Âˇ Assistant Pool Manager
Âˇ Admissions /
Concessions Clerks
Âˇ Lifeguards
Please visit
www.tonganoxie.org or
call 913-845-2620 for
application instructions.

What are you waiting for?
Need a Job, Career, or
Extra Cash?
Westaff can make that happen.
We will be hosting a
Career Fair at the
following location:
Monday, March 11th
9 am to 1pm
Lawrence Workforce Ctr
2540 Iowa Street
â&#x20AC;˘ Prod. line operators
â&#x20AC;˘ Machine operators
â&#x20AC;˘ 1st, 2nd, 3rd shifts
â&#x20AC;˘ Background/Drug Screen
reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d
If you cannot attend please
fill out an
application online at:
westaff.com or call
785-273-3939
EOE

Healthcare

To apply go to
http://employment.ku.edu
/jobs/2217
EOE

Prospect Management
Coordinator
A full-time position with
KU Endowment. Please
go to:
www.kuendowment.org
to see the full description and to apply online.
Applications
accepted
until the position is filled.

Thicker line?
Bolder heading?
Color background or
Logo?
Ask how to get these
features in your ad
TODAY!!

Human
Resources/Recruiti
ng

University of Kansas - Human Resources is seeking a Human Resources
Specialist.
Bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in Human Resources or a related
field, OR 4 years of professional personnel or
human resource experience. Applications deadline. 03/15/13.
Apply at:
http://employment.ku.edu
/jobs/2216
EOE

M/F/D/V

Every ad you
place runs

SunflowerClassifieds

Project Coordinator
The Kansas Enrichment
Network is a non-profit
organization
dedicated
to quality out-of-school
programming
for
children and youth. The Network seeks a Project Coordinator to assist in
building public will for
expanded learning opportunities and increasing the knowledge and
skills of program staff.
For complete job description visit
http://employment.ku.edu/job
s/2190. First review of applications
begins on 3/11/13.
EOE
M/F/D/V

Healthcare

in print and
online.

M/F/D/V

9th & Indiana, Lawrence

Go to ljworld.com or call
785-832-1000.

All packages include AT
LEAST 7 days online, 2
photos online, 4000
chracters online, and one
week in top ads.

Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!

Waterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Edge

PUT YOUR
EMPLOYMENT AD IN
TODAY!!

UP TO FOUR PACKAGES
TO CHOOSE FROM!

General

Background check/drug
test required.
EOE

Job Description
& Online Application
available at
www.union.ku.edu/hr

Education &
Training

Sunflower Bank, a $1.8
billion financial services
leader, is searching for
the right person to fill
our Credit Administrator
position in Lawrence, KS.
We are looking for a
team-player
with
a
strong
background
in
the
legal,
accounting,
and/or commercial lending fields to fill our position!
The primary responsibilities of this position will be to perform
credit analysis, prepare
credit applications, constantly monitor, and ensure proper documentation of our largest commercial and agricultural
loans.
A college degree
is preferred, along with
the ability to read and
interpret
legal
writings/documents.
Imagine the satisfaction
of contributing to an institution committed to
producing
leading-edge
solutions for our customers and true growth
potential for our employees. Qualified applicants
should apply online at
sunflowerbank.com/careers
Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never worked any
place
like
Sunflower
Bank before! EOE/AA!

EngineersTechnical

DISTRICT MANAGER
Lawrence Journal-World
is seeking a motivated
individual with a service
oriented attitude to join
our circulation team as
District Manager.
Manager
oversees
independent contractors in
the delivery of newspapers to subscribers in
assigned
territory
in
Lawrence, Kansas and
surrounding
communities.
Responsible for
identifying
carriers
to
deliver newspapers, provide
training,
ensure
service goals are met by
the carriers; resolve customer delivery issues in
a timely manner; and deliver unassigned routes
when necessary to ensure daily delivery of
newspapers.
Must be
available to work a flexible
schedule
between
11:00 pm - 11:00 am, including weekends and
holidays.
The
ideal
candidate
should be self-motivated
with excellent customer
service skills that enjoys
working with a variety of
people. Successful candidates must have supervisory or leadership
experience,
preferably
with independent contractors; effective communication
and
time
management
skills;
strong customer service
skills are essential; proficient
in
MS
Office;
strong
organizational
skills with the ability to
multi-task
and
meet
deadlines; and the ability to lift 50 lbs. Must
have reliable transportation, a valid driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license, proof of insurance and a safe driving
record.
The
World
Company
offers a competitive salary with an excellent
benefits package including health, dental and vision insurance, 401k, tuition
reimbursement,
paid time off, mileage reimbursement and more!
Background
check,
pre-employment
drug
screen and physical lift
assessment required. To
apply submit a cover letter and resume to:
hrapplications@ljworld.com
EOE

Operating Room
Registered Nurse
Full-Time or Part-Time
The
Lawrence
Surgery
Center is accepting applications for an experienced Full-Time and/or
Part-Time
Operating
Room Registered Nurse.
If you are a detail oriented, high energy surgical
nurse this may the right
opportunity
for
you.
Competitive benefits and
incentive plan offered.
Apply in person at 1112
West Sixth Street, Suite
220, or fax resume to:
785-832-2029.

Periodontal Practice is hiring
both a dental asst. & front office asst. We offer a complete
benefit package & wonderful
work environment. We are
looking for friendly, energetic,
fast
learning,
self-starters.
You must be
able to multi-task in a fast
paced environment & be a
hard worker.
Please fax or email your
resume: 785-843-6127 or
ewperiodontics@sunflower.com
with a short explanation of which
position you prefer & the reason
why you should be our choice.

Looking for highly motivated
individuals
that
are looking for a career
in the Auto Industry. No
experience
necessary,
we will provide training
to help you become a
premier auto salesperson! We are under new
management
and
are
growing fast! We will
have a new dealership
right along I-35.
Call to schedule your
confidential interview.
Ask for Mike McConchie.
785-232-5100

Go to ljworld.com or call
785-832-1000.
UP TO FOUR PACKAGES
TO CHOOSE FROM!
All packages include AT
LEAST 7 days online, 2
photos online, 4000
chracters online, and one
week in top ads.
Days in print vary with
package chosen.

Contact us @ The
Lawrence Journal-World
to do an email blast!
Your service message
sent to 17,000 email
subscribers for only $149!
Email
classifeds@ljworld.com
or call
785-832-2222

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(Knights of Columbus Club)

D & L Auctions
785-766-5630
www.dandlauctions.com

PUBLIC AUCTION
Saturday March 16th,
2013 - 10:00 A.M.
1429 N. 1100 Rd.,
Lawrence, KS
From Lawrence South 2
miles on HWY 59 to 1100
Rd. (Leary Rd.) East 1.25
miles to Auction. Watch
for Signs!

Having a
Garage Sale?
For $39.95, your ad will
run Wednesday- Saturdayin the Lawrence Journal
-World as well as the
Tonganoxie Mirror and
Baldwin Signal weekly
newspapers, and all of our
online websites.
You have up to 45 lines in
print!

This a very zippy car with
a 3.2L V6 engine and
power retractable rear
spoiler. Comes with the
Infinity sound system,
heated
leather
seats,
and
premium
lightweight alloy wheels designed to grab the road.
Only 7,900 miles and very
well
kept.
P10025D
$18,365.

Part of our Ford Certified
Pre-Owned
program
which comes with a remaining 7 year/100,000
mile
powertrain
warranty. This one is an SE
with the SYNC package,
automatic
transmission,
and alloy wheels. Priced
thousands less than a
new one and has a better warranty.
P1118
$16,995.

Chevrolet 2011 Volt, all
electric car! You have to
drive this to believe it!
GM certified with 2yrs of
scheduled
maintenance
included, alloy wheels,
navigation, On Star and
much more! Stk#10602
only $29,415.
Dale Willey 785-843-5200
www.dalewilleyauto.com

2010 Ford Fusion SEL
Rare Fusion with
All-Wheel-Drive. The SEL
package gives it the luxury amenities such as
heated leather seats.
This one also has the
sunroof, BLIS system
with cross traffic alert,
and the rear view camera. CARFAX 1-Owner.
13C664A $16,629.

Have your car cleaned
by a Professional! We
will detail your car the
same as our pre-owned
inventory. Most vehicles
are only $220.95 call Allen @ Dale Willey Automotive to schedule your
cars make over! You
won’t believe the difference! 785-843-5200
Dale Willey 785-843-5200
www.dalewilleyauto.com

2011 Hyundai
Santa Fe -GLS
2010 Lincoln MKZ
This Lincoln is fully
loaded with AWD and
the Technology Package
that includes navigation,
BLIS warning system,
and the THX Premium
Sound System. Brand
new this Lincoln was
over $42,000. Now it is a
great deal. P1101 $23,527
23rd & Alabama
Lawrence 843-3500
www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

Who says Jeeps aren’t for
families? This one has
4-doors and plenty of
room for a family trip.
Soft top that can come
down for the open road
feel in the warmer
weather and a 4-wheel
drive system that goes
almost anywhere.
13C671A $20,995.
Call 785-843-3500
LAIRD NOLLER
23rd & Alabama
Lawrence

Wife cannot love husband after his affair
Dear Annie: I am unable to develop feelings
of love for my husband of
eight years. In fact, deep
inside, I despise him.
This is my second
marriage, his fourth. In
our early years together,
I began to notice obvious signs of his having
an intimate relationship
with another woman.
He always denied this
vehemently and became
angry with me for even
saying such a thing. But
the evidence I’ve accumulated is enough proof
for me. I even saw this
woman multiple times,
and the looks she gave
me were of the “cat that
ate the canary” variety.
My husband has no
idea that I have evidence, although I am
now positive that he
has stopped seeing this
woman. My problem is
that my heart has a layer
of cement around it because he has insulted
and disrespected my intelligence by continuing

Annie’s Mailbox

Marcy Sugar and
Kathy Mitchell
anniesmailbox@comcast.net

to lie about it. I cannot
trust someone who is
unable to be truthful.
If my husband would
only come forward and
admit his guilt, as hard
as it would be, I would
be able to go through
the process of forgiving this betrayal. But he
is unwilling. It saddens
me that he is still robbing us both of a better
marriage. Any advice? —
Heart of Stone
Dear Heart of Stone:
Your heart isn’t cement.
You care a great deal
and are trying to protect
yourself from the pain of

Shields
enlists in
‘Army Wives’
More than 30 years in the public eye, Brooke Shields joins the
cast of the cable drama “Army
Wives” (8 p.m. Sunday, Lifetime)
as the popular series enters its
seventh season. Over the years,
she’s transformed from the precocious child model and actress
(“Pretty Baby”) to television star
(“Suddenly Susan”), while maintaining a good deal of public affection.
Shields, who has recently
played a not-so-nice neighbor
on “The Middle,” joins “Army
Wives” as Air Force Col. Katherine “Kat” Young, a strong-willed
woman who flies C-17 transport
planes and
plays second
fiddle to no
man. Needless to say,
she
raises
eyebrows
the second she touches down on
the base.
O The miniseries “The Bible”
(7 p.m. Sunday, History) covers
stories in the Old Testament,
from Joshua and the battle of
Jericho to the construction of
Solomon’s Temple. Not unexpectedly, this series attracted a
very healthy cable audience last
Sunday.
History Channel’s “Vikings” (9
p.m. Sunday) was also a success.
Tonight, Ragnar (Travis Fimmel)
and his ragtag gang venture into
dark and mysterious waters and
chance upon a land of deep faith
and rich plunder.

being hurt. It’s possible
that your “proof” doesn’t
tell the whole story.
Your husband may have
been less involved than
your evidence would
indicate, in which case,
he doesn’t believe he
has anything to admit.
Please don’t play games
with your marriage. If
you have proof, show
him. Tell him you are
willing to forgive if he
comes clean, and that
not discussing it honestly could destroy your
relationship. If this still
doesn’t help you find the
reassurance you need,
please consider counseling, with or without him.
Dear Annie: Yesterday, my wife and I attended the funeral of a
woman who died as a
result of a fire. We were
appalled when someone’s cellphone began
to ring. Not only did
this woman answer her
phone and carry on a
conversation during the
service, but when her

JACQUELINE BIGAR’S STARS

For Sunday, March 10:
This year you break down barriers by implementing many of your
ideas. Explain your reasoning, and
be willing to respond to inquiries. If
you are single, decide what type of
bond you desire. If you are attached,
as a couple you might decide to
make one of your long-term desires
a reality.
The Stars Show the Kind of Day
You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive;
3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult
Aries (March 21-April 19)
+++ You have been so busy
lately that you might need some extra R and R. Take the time now, and
you will feel much better. Tonight:
Kick back and relax.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
+++++ Others want to be a
part of your day. Fielding calls could
be a full-time job; instead, make
plans and head out the door. Tonight: Favorite dinner, favorite place.
Gemini (May 21-June 20)
+++ Check in with an older
loved one before making plans.
Once you take care of your responsibilities, you could be taken aback
by all of your options. Tonight: Out
for dinner.
Cancer (June 21-July 22)
++++ Reach out to those within
your circle of family and friends who
might not be around you on a regular basis. Listening to them will help
you escape from the here and now.
Tonight: Think “vacation.”
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
++++ One person wants
you and does not want to share!
Hopefully, you feel the same way.
Tonight: Celebrate.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
+++++ Popularity is nice, especially when it enables you to choose

phone rang again, she
did the same thing.
I think funeral homes
or anywhere such a service is held should post
signs telling attendees
to turn off their cellphones during visitation
hours and for the duration of the service. If
someone cannot do this,
they should not come.
They can send flowers
or a condolence card.
— Irritated by Lack of
Thoughtfulness
Dear Irritated: There
is no excuse for letting
one’s cellphone disturb
a funeral service (or a
wedding, concert, play,
movie or any other such
event). But it’s not necessary to stay away entirely. People can put their
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your plans and the people involved.
Nevertheless, you might need to respond to a friend or parent. Tonight:
Touch base with a neighbor.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
+++ Work with someone
directly. You will feel better with
this person if you are spontaneous.
Tonight: Surround yourself with
great music.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
++++ Act on a creative idea
that might involve a partner. You
can’t restrain your imagination, nor
should you. Tonight: Go for something adventurous or frisky.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
++++ Slow down, and spend
some quality time with a family
member. You have a lot of people
seeking you out. Tonight: Order in.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
++++ Catch up on friends’
news. Your perspective could
change dramatically as the day goes
on. Tonight: At a favorite haunt.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
+++ You might be living as if
there is no tomorrow. Your happier side emerges when shopping
and indulging others. Tonight: Your
treat.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
++++ As you weigh the pros
and cons of a change on the homefront, others will give you their opinions. You might not agree at first,
but these people are coming from
a point of view that you might need
to take into consideration. Tonight:
You call the shots.

a time as any”
Pinnacles
Potato buy
Doctor’s
signboard
Like clay
pots
Acted
snobbishly
toward
Arrive past
due
Legally
accountable
Get one’s
goat
They may be
thrown for a
loss
Maui
mouthful
Depict
unfairly, as
data
Ignited
League
where Dr. J’s
pro career
began
Bridal bio
word

GM CERTIFIED is not like
any other dealer backed
warranty. Don’t let the
other dealers tell you
any different. Dale Willey
Automotive is the only
dealer in Lawrence that
GM Certifies their cars
and trucks.
Come see the difference!
Call for details.
785-843-5200
ask for Allen

SuperCab XLT package
and 4x4. Comes with all
the basics, power windows,
power
locks,
cruise control, air conditioning, and has a Line-X
bedliner also.
Under
100,000 miles and a CARFAX 1-Owner.
13T411A
$14,997.
Call 785-843-3500
LAIRD NOLLER
23rd & Alabama
Lawrence

www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

Lawrence

Petition was filed in this
Court by Richard Rist, one
of the heirs at law of the
estate of Bessie Fay Foster,
deceased, dated February
15, 2013, praying that he be
appointed as administrator
and that he be granted Letters of Administration.

certain real property le- The City Commission regally described as follows:
serves the right to reject
any or all bids and to waive
LOT 15, BLOCK 6, IN PRAIRIE informalities.
MEADOWS NO. 2, AN ADDITION TO THE CITY OF LAW- Jonathan Douglass
RENCE, DOUGLAS COUNTY, City Clerk
KANSAS.
A.P.
NO:
________
023-111-11-0-20-04-014.00-0
(First published in the Lawfor a judgment against de- rence Daily Journal-World,
fendants and any other in- March 10, 2013)
terested parties and, unless
Public Notice
otherwise served by personal or mail service of
summons,
the
time
in The Purchasing Policy at
which you have to plead to The University of Kansas
the Petition for Foreclosure has been updated effective
in the District Court of March 11, 2013. These upDouglas County Kansas will dated Policy may be acexpire on April 8, 2013. If cessed via The University
you fail to plead, judgment of Kansas Purchasing Web
and decree will be entered page
in due course upon the re- @http://www.purchasing.k
u.edu/.
quest of plaint
________

You are required to file
your
written
defenses
thereto on or before March
28, 2013 at 10:15 o’clock
A.M. of said day, in this
Court, in the City of Lawrence, in Douglas County,
Kansas, at which time and
place the cause will be
heard. Should you fail,
judgment and decree will
be entered in due course
upon the Petition.

NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Separate sealed bids will
be received by the City of
Lawrence, Kansas in the office of the City Clerk, 6 East
6th street, until 2:00 pm
Tuesday, March 26, 2013,
for the following purchase:
CLINTON PLANT FILTER
MEDIA

Copies of the Notice to Bidders
and
specifications
may be obtained at the FiSTATE OF KANSAS to the nance Department at the
above named Defendants above address.
and The Unknown Heirs, executors, devisees, trustees, The City Commission recreditors, and assigns of serves the right to reject
any deceased defendants; any or all bids and to waive
the unknown spouses of informalities.
Lawrence
any defendants; the unknown officers, successors, Jonathan Douglass
(First published in the Lawtrustees, creditors and as- City Clerk
rence Daily Journal-World
signs of any defendants
________
March 10, 2013)
that are existing, dissolved
or dormant corporations; (First published in the LawIN THE DISTRICT COURT OF the unknown executors, adrence Daily Journal-World
DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS ministrators,
devisees, March 10, 2013)
PROBATE SECTION
trustees, creditors, successors and assigns of any deNOTICE TO BIDDERS
In the Matter of the Estate fendants that are or were
of BESSIE FAY FOSTER,
partners or in partnership; Separate sealed bids will
deceased.
and the unknown guardi- be received by the City of
(Petition pursuant to
ans, conservators and trus- Lawrence, Kansas in the ofChapter 59
tees of any defendants that fice of the City Clerk, 6 East
Kansas Statutes
are minors or are under any 6th street, until 2:00 pm
Annotated)
legal disability and all other Tuesday, March 19, 2013,
person who are or may be for the following purchase:
No. 13 PR 31
concerned:
Div. 1
2013 CONCRETE REHAB
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED
PROGRAM
NOTICE OF HEARING AND
that a Petition for Mortgage
NOTICE TO CREDITORS THE
Foreclosure has been filed Copies of the Notice to BidSTATE OF KANSAS TO ALL
in the District Court of ders
and
specifications
PERSONS CONCERNED:
Douglas County, Kansas by may be obtained at the FiNationstar Mortgage LLC, nance Department at the
You are hereby notified praying for foreclosure of
above address.
that on February 27, 2013, a
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All creditors are notified to
exhibit
their
demands
against the estate within
four months from the date
of the frist publication of
this Notice, as probided by
law, and if their demands
are not thus exhibited, they
shall be forever barred.

(First published in the LAwrence Daily Journal-World,
March 10,2013)
RESOLUTION
ESTABLISHING RATES OF
COMPENSATION
TO BE PAID TO EUDORA
TOWNSHIP OFFICERS
WHEREAS, Eudora Township desires to establish
reasonable rates of compensation to be paid to
township board members
for certain services performed while actually and
necessarily conducting the
business of said township;
and,
WHEREAS, the township is
authorized to determine
and establish such compensation under the authority of K.S.A. 80-207.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE TOWNSHIP
BOARD OF EUDORA TOWNSHIP:
Section
1.
The
Eudora
Township
Board
hereby
fixes and establishes the
following rate and determines the same to be reasonable compensation for
services performed while
actually and necessarily attending to and conducting
township business:
A.
For
services
performed
by each officer in attending
to the township business
as an officer, board member or auditing board member: $5,333 per year.
B.
Township officers
of
such
township shall be reimbursed for any out of
pocket expenses incurred
while actually and necessarily attending to township business.
Section 2. This resolution
shall be published once
each week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper
of
general
circulation
within the township. This
resolution shall not become
effective until 30 days following the date of the second said publication.
Dated this
March, 2013.